colettecasey

PhD Student at Queen's University, Belfast LINCS Doctoral Scholar Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice

[James Orr @JamesAOrr]

Break the chains, I say.

The Memorandum of Understanding between UFU and @daera_ni is under scrutiny.

The anti-environment pressure on @daera_ni is being exposed.

Let's just get an Independent EPA.

The need is overwhelming.
#epanow

[James Orr @JamesAOrr]

It's worth trying to get this article not least because of what I say.

We are not just tolerating pollution, we are paying the polluters.

And the total subsidies over 20 years run to well over £1 billion. Yes, billion.

#epanow

https://t.co/nx1m2oofgZ

[colettecasey @colettecasey20]

Please sign this petition for the future of everyone in Northern Ireland. The lack of meaningful action when the visible cost to the public is so blatantly obvious it beggars belief. Help end profiteering at the expense of the public and nature:

https://t.co/Myw17w9jYn

[Tommy Greene @Tommy___Greene]

NEW: Stormont department's investigation into file destruction for an est. £200m+ HMRC tax relief programme finds "no staff wrongdoing", concluding a probe that lasted the best part of 2 years.

Latest on the Aggregates Levy Credit Scheme for @TheDetailTV

https://t.co/TGheHaCmJt

[The Detail @TheDetailTV]

Probe into destruction of files on controversial tax relief scheme finds 'no wrongdoing' @Tommy___Greene

https://t.co/oif14IWkHj

[James Orr @JamesAOrr]

Up to £200 million in tax relief given to mining and quarry companies in NI.

The farce that was meant to "improve environmental standards" yet cover-ups and corruption supported the plundering of nature.

We even funded the unlawful mining of #LoughNeagh

https://t.co/tZ0a1Mwykf

[Slí Eile @sli_eile_]

… Moy Park is owned by Brazilian agri-food giant JBS. Large-scale deforestation and human rights abuses, including forced labour & land grabbing of Indigenous lands, linked to JBS have been widely documented by @Greenpeace @Global_Witness @Amnesty and others.

[Slí Eile @sli_eile_]

More than 100 activists from across Ireland joined the @saveloughneagh_ campaign today in a dramatic action at a Moy Park chicken factory in Craigavon, Co Armagh, highlighting the major role of factory farming in “killing Lough Neagh” and accelerating climate breakdown.

[colettecasey @colettecasey20]

@OfficeforEP I hope this investigation will be more effective than NIEA investigations and finally lead to some action, accountability and protection for the environment in Northern Ireland.

[Shauna Corr 🌍 @ShaunaReports]

Audit Office slams official response to potential agricultural planning fraud
#fakesoilsamples #LoughNeagh https://t.co/r90cXCoFNf

[colettecasey @colettecasey20]

@TVconormac Unfortunately the busy news day of election coverage allowed this to fall under the radar. I wonder how this was scheduled and if coincidence or deliberate media management was involved. It would be great to see this get much more exposure as an urgent matter of public interest.

[conor macauley @TVconormac]

When you hear about toxic algae growth in Lough Neagh, this is part of the problem - ineffective regulation and a failure by public bodies to fulfil their responsibilities

[Stephen McCormick❤️ @SJA_McC]

Central & local government responses awful.

Where was/is the joined up leadership for a major seemingly industrial scale, suspected financial fraud & suspected environmental crime?

⁦@deptinfra⁩ ⁦@NI_LGA⁩ ⁦@dptfinance⁩ https://t.co/Ie0ptnO4wz

[James Orr @JamesAOrr]

Thanks @NIAuditOffice
You may now wish to further investigate :
- public health cost of unauthorised approvals eg air pollution
- subsidies for fraudulent approvals
- public cost of environmental remediation
- implications to revoke fraudulent consents

https://t.co/35a7SqbJR6

[colettecasey @colettecasey20]

@Tommy___Greene It is very interesting that these applications stretch back a number of years - there are many serious questions around how this system has been functioning and why it continues to so without any accountability.

[Tommy Greene @Tommy___Greene]

Watchdog finds that NI public bodies failed to proactively investigate widespread fraud in bids for new livestock farming schemes.

I was contacted by a whistleblower last year who disclosed that it involved +100 applications

https://t.co/3JzedulsYQ

https://t.co/O65UdHKwCJ

[colettecasey @colettecasey20]

@TheDetailTV This is certainly very true: "Public confidence in the planning system “has been undermined” by councils’ and DfI’s response." When can the public expect to have bodies who take appropriate action and are accountable themselves?

[Luke Butterly @lukejbutterly]

And the scandal is still continuing....

NIEA asked some applicants who submitted fake samples to send in new ones.

But when the resubmitted samples were checked, tests found discrepancies in every case...

[James Orr @JamesAOrr]

3, 500 soil samples falsified in massive factory farm fraud. Designed to obscure impact of pollution. Absolteluly shocking.

#epanow #LoughNeagh https://t.co/BCTxlXtXeM