Environment

In yesterday’s sitting of Tynwald (Tuesday 17th May 2008) Onchan MHK, David Quirk failed in a bid to get the DLGE to reappraise their waste management strategy. He wanted them to do this before launching into a kerbside collection of recyclables ...

The failure of the incinerator to produce much electricity this year was the subject of questioning by Onchan MHK, Peter Karran last Tuesday (20th May 2008).  Environment Minister, John Shimmin confirmed that SITA had encountered further problems with the turbine, a ...

A group of concerned individuals, and established ‘environmental’ groups, have got together, in the last year or so, for the sole purpose of trying to help raise awareness, among Island residents and businesses, of the issue of ‘Peak Oil’; and ...

The Minutes of the Richmond Hill Consultative Committee meeting, held in October last year, have recently been made public.  The Government Analyst, Mr Lenartowitz, circulated to the Committee the latest set of dioxin results for soil samples taken from sites ...

Last Thursday (25th October) member for Dept. of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry, David Quirk MHK introduced a presentation, based on a similar presentation given to the Department and other government bodies, to interested members of the public at the Erin ...

The Food & Farming in Schools campaign is designed to give teachers the resources they need to bring food and farming issues alive in their schools.   The resources pages on the campaign’s website offer lesson plans, worksheets and a ...

This Saturday, 22nd September, will see the launch of a campaign to encourage residents and businesses to remove certain items from the waste stream and to recycle them instead.  The ‘They are not for Burning’ campaign is a joint initiative ...

The Manx Herald was recently contacted by several concerned south side residents who claimed to have been reliably informed that the composting of green waste at the Southern C A site was due to cease at the end of August.  The ...

How many people does it take to change to low-energy lights bulbs?  Most of us know what we should be doing about climate change but somehow we just don’t get round to putting it into practice. We would be more ...

A press release has been issued by a new association called ‘Manx Sea Matters’; who intend to keep a watch over anything that may impact on Manx territorial seas.  The diverse group of concerned individuals, and representatives of various marine ...