The European Green Deal is a set of initiatives brought forward by the European Commission with the stated aim of making Europe Carbon neutral by 2050, similar in many ways to the US’s Green New Deal. However, on April 8th the European Commission announced it was appointing BlackRock, an investment and wealth management company which…
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Our Statement on the Cork Greens’ Call for an LPT Increase – tax the wealthy, not the majority
WE NEED IMMEDIATE, RADICAL ACTION ON CLIMATE – NOT DEAD-END TOKENISM Our statement on the deeply regressive position the Cork Greens have taken on Local Property Tax, calling for a 15% hike last week: On 16 September, the Cork Greens proposed a 15% increase in the deeply regressive Local Property Tax (LPT) to fund infrastructure…
PBP Submission to Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (CMATS)
On Friday 28 June the Cork branch of People Before Profit made a submission as part of the public consultation to the Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (CMATS) as presented by the National Transport Authority (NTA). In our submission we called for significant investment and expansion of public transport and for the scrapping of public…
INDAVER AND THE CORPORATE AND STATE POISON MERCHANTS MUST BE FOUGHT ON ALL FRONTS
By Jim O’Connell People Before Profit Election Candidate Cork South Central On Monday 15th Feb. I attended another Public Meeting in Ringaskiddy on the topic of Indaver’s latest attempt to force a poisonous incinerator project on the people of the village and the Cork Harbour area. When I got there I was pleased to…
PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT OUTRAGE AT NEW RINGASKIDDY INCINERATOR APPLICATION
People Before Profit’s Cork South Central general election candidate, Jim O’Connell, has expressed outrage and concern at the new application to Bord Pleanála lodged by Indaver this week. Speaking in support of CHASE, the Cork action group who have spent years fighting to stop the building of a hazardous waste incinerator on their doorstep, Jim…
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