Neue Gesetze zu kritischen Infrastrukturen werden klimabezogene rechtliche Herausforderungen blockieren
http://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/04/08/new-critical-infrastructure-laws-will-block-climate-based-legal-challenges
Von SquareBall84
Neue Gesetze zu kritischen Infrastrukturen werden klimabezogene rechtliche Herausforderungen blockieren
http://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/04/08/new-critical-infrastructure-laws-will-block-climate-based-legal-challenges
Von SquareBall84
17 Kommentare
Good. Our impact on climate change is so minimal to be almost negligible. Critical infrastructure for the population we have is far more important
The simple fact is that the current rules allow *all* projects to be semi-permanently delayed by malicious actors.
They don’t actually give a flying fuck about the lesser-spotted natterjack, they just don’t want turbines within 100km of their house because reasons.
Ireland is currently stuck burning fossil fuels (now very *expensive* fossil fuels) because all of the major wind turbine, solar and grid projects are constantly held back for years.
This law will prevent such projects from being maliciously blocked. They still have to comply with all other laws, and they still have to be important enough to be declared as critical infrastructure by the Government, however.
So much for the climate emergency. Almost like the government just say and do whatever suits at whatever particular time.
Fantastic news.
Just look at the much needed A5 project up North, and how it was torpedoed by Stromont’s own climate legislation.
Those who brought about the climate complaint? A notable anti A5 group – with malicious intent.
This is what all those years of articles blaming NIMBY people has lead to. Turning us against each other for decades so that now the people of Ireland will have no say over what is built or not.
Are the people right or wrong to object to this or that? Doesn’t matter anymore. The friends of Israel party knows what is best for us.
I’m fully behind this. It feels like nothing has been built in the last 10 years. We need to get on with it and build some major new capacity in this economy.
We can’t even get our offshore wind turbines and upgraded electrical network built.
The bloody electric buses can’t be used because the charging stations are delayed.
There is currently 0 luas lines, metros or rail lines under construction in the entire country (actually there might be one rail project near Limerick – but it’s not one that will help commuters)
Catherine Connolly is malding in the Áras.
The Greens need to address this has been weaponised with lawfare. On the flip side we need to fine developers significant money for half arsed planning submissions. Too much time on all sides being wasted.
Our climate and ecology are at a point that we may as well get rid of all the rules anyway. We have lost.
And who decides what critical infrastructure will be? How long until we see this being used to fast track things like data centres and other profit making projects for MNCs
Is there a definition on critical infrastructure?
I can understand the need to expedite approval, but I wouldn’t want this to be used to fast track road construction.
This is also to fast track more data centres.
Great, anti building laws have added to the housing and infrastructure shortages and increased cost.
I’m fine with this. We are so far behind where we need to be that things like this have to be bypassed.
It’s worth noting Spain and France operate under all of the same EU environmental regulations that we do and are considered compliant but they build far quicker, cheaper and more frequently than we do with far less legalism tying things up.
Government can posture all it likes blaming environmental regs but this is the cumbersome system government has developed itself.
Government has created a system where the NIMBY can use process to run riot, environmental regulations being abused is simply indicative of bad law and gummed up process, not environmental regulations in themselves being a bad thing, quite the opposite env regs exist to protect everybody.
Let them climb trees again.
Brilliant well done! Need more of this, don’t let the NIMBY dopes win