Posted on 09/11/2017 3:17:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Farmers will have to fence off cattle to prevent them accessing rivers and streams as part of new measures to improve water quality. A review by two government departments of a program to ensure Ireland complies with the EU Nitrates Directive has recommended that farmers on more intensively stocked farms must take measures to prevent contact between cattle and water sources on their land from January 1, 2021.
The review of the Nitrates Action program by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government said the deadline would give farmers the chance to plan fencing off cattle from watercourses and provide livestock with other drinking water sources. The measure is expected to apply to 12,350 farms covering a total farmed area of around 675,000 hectares. Farmers will also be required to ensure drinking points for livestock must be located at least 20m from any rivers or streams by 2021 as well as to take measures to ensure there is no runoff from roadways and tracks into water sources.
A review group, which examined 28 submissions from farming and environmental groups and local authorities, ruled out increasing buffer zones around rivers, streams, potable water and lakes as “unworkable”.
Despite requests from farmers and farming representative bodies, the group also decided not to alter the existing periods for a ban on the spreading of organic fertilizers. …
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Centuries of poverty will do that to you. My main takeaway from my visit there was why my ancestor left.
I learned something new today - because of your reply. I know that farmers where I live fence off the steams from cattle. So when I got your reply, I “googled” it and found that the farmers/ranchers do it voluntarily. I’m glad to know it is not the EPA.
http://www.gettingmoreontheground.com/2014/03/26/dr-wise-on-livestock-stream-exclusion/
That’s not what happened. The rule of Ireland was given to England’s Henry II by Pope Alexander III, who also authorized the Norman invasions on the behalf of that king and of his vassal Dermot Mac Murrough (the deposed king of Leinster).
The division between Catholic and Protestant was especially violent in the British Isles. And there were no innocents on either side; the Irish, who held to the Catholic side, were quite violent in their methods, and it can be argued that Puritan “Lord Protector” Oliver Cromwell met terror with terror.
Also, the Easter Rising was fomented by communists who were pushing “independence” as a stepping stone towards a larger revolution; the majority of Irish merely wanted home rule.
Some States will also give farmers money to build the fence.
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