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Posted on 06/04/2026 9:25:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The European Commission has taken Ireland to Europe’s highest court over the alleged lack of enforcement of EU rules when it comes to peat cutting.
Following years of friction between the Government and the Commission on the issue, the EU’s executive body today referred Ireland to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failure to comply with EU rules on environmental impact assessments.
In a statement, the Commission said Ireland had failed to comply with the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive.
The statement claimed there was still “significant peat cutting activity” which was not subject to planning permission or environmental impact assessments, especially in relation to sites under 50 hectares.
“Despite evidence of these ongoing illegal activities, enforcement action at the local level is not being taken. The Commission considers that efforts by the Irish authorities have been insufficient and is therefore referring Ireland to the Court of Justice of the European Union,” the statement added. …
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“ For Pete’s sake!”
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Yuk, yuk, yuk. Well played.
Sounds like some goofy “Wetlands” control similar to the mess the EPA mandated.
30 hectares = 74 acres
50 hectares = 123 acres
Remember...the EU was created to establish a common European market. It has morphed into a centralized dictatorial oligarchy that seeks to control every aspect of citizens’ lives and destroy the sovereignty of member states.
Sound familiar?
Fellow Irishmen go freeze, I thought you fought for your freedom now you’ve surrender it to be slaves of the EU.
If you read the 1957 Treaty of Rome that established the so-called “Common Market”, everything the present-day EUSSR is was written right there.
Recently returned from a cruise that included a stop at the Scottish Isle of Lewis. There, too, they harvest peat for cooking and home heating, and though it is frowned upon by the British government, fuel prices have been so high, and that area is so darn cold, that locals do it anyway. Cool to see homes with their “peat stacks” in the yard. In this area, the peat covers the “moors” and is literally hundreds of years old and 3 miters deep, made up mostly of sphagnum moss that grows and decomposes, grows and decomposes, and on and on. Very cool to see.
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