Infrastructure

by C Murray - SaveTara Sun Aug 12, 2007 14:03

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83769

[This article details the cogs and wheels of the Strategic Infrastructure Bill.It was launched
on the 16th of Feburary 2006 by Dick Roche TD, who stated at the launch that he did not
envisage a separate raft of legislations for protection. He also asserted that he would only
transpose selected elements of the Aarhus Convention into Irish Law. The Bill was moved
through the joint houses of the Oireachtas on the 16th of June 2006, in the absence of the
Taoiseach]

In the comments beneath the article there is a link to the whole bill:-

http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/bills/2006/0...s.pdf

The sections on the transposition of the Aarhus convention directly effect future planning and
the structure of the courts and were attacked at the time by Mayo TD Michael ring as being
the most inflammatory set of legislations to be passed through the houses in the history of the
state. they form part of the linear progression of Bills which have prioritised the erosion
of rights of access to judicial process by ordinary people and the criminlaisation of
objectors to fast-track planning without the requisite balance in the protections of
natural and built heritage.

by W. Finnerty. Sun Aug 12, 2007 14:39

"Stiglitz agreed that the process of hijacking and looting key infrastructure on the part of the IMF and World Bank, as an offshoot of predatory globalization, had now moved from the third world to Europe, the United States and Canada."

Joseph Stiglitz, the Stiglitz referred to above, is a former World Bank Vice President and Nobel Prize winner.

The above quote has been taken from http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/301006...h.htm .

Apparently, according to the report at the above address, Mr Stiglitz also caused controversy in October 2001 when he exposed rampant corruption within the IMF (International Monitory Fund) and "blew the whistle on their nefarious methods of inducing countries to fall under their debt before stripping them of sovereignty and hollowing out their economies".

One final quote from the article at the above address: "The Columbia University Professor described how rampant privatization has crippled Mexico, in particular citing the sell-off of major infrastructure such as roads."

by W. Finnerty. Sun Aug 12, 2007 14:39

"Stiglitz agreed that the process of hijacking and looting key infrastructure on the part of the IMF and World Bank, as an offshoot of predatory globalization, had now moved from the third world to Europe, the United States and Canada."

Joseph Stiglitz, the Stiglitz referred to above, is a former World Bank Vice President and Nobel Prize winner.

The above quote has been taken from http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/301006...h.htm .

Apparently, according to the report at the above address, Mr Stiglitz also caused controversy in October 2001 when he exposed rampant corruption within the IMF (International Monitory Fund) and "blew the whistle on their nefarious methods of inducing countries to fall under their debt before stripping them of sovereignty and hollowing out their economies".

One final quote from the article at the above address: "The Columbia University Professor described how rampant privatization has crippled Mexico, in particular citing the sell-off of major infrastructure such as roads."

by Strategic Sun Aug 12, 2007 16:10

The UK Police have press released in Yesterday's Guardian that they intend to use
anti-terror laws of arrest and detention against the NVDA action to prevent the unsustainable
expansion of Heathrow Airport. One female activist was 'lifted' and spent thirty hours in a police cell
without charge and with no contact or familial support.
http://www.guardian.co.uk

The use of infrastructural development laws that mitigate against a citizenship and criminalise
the conscientous objector are plainly evident in the abuse of power by the Present members of the
Oireachtas in relation to Rossport, Pallaskenry and Tara. The Green Party have signed up
to the SIB bill which is delineated in the articles and links above. there are 54 corporate
projects awaiting advance through the Irish court system, facilitated by the Blll which only seeks to
transpose elements of Aaarhus into irish Law and ignoring the very real implications of placing
the money and profit lobby ahead of the community and citizen. If there was to be a campaign that
was to be effective , people must be aware that Tara is symptomatic of the 'beginning' of
a sell out for profit by a right wing government with a cosmetically enhanced green party
providing the conscience of the devlopment agenda. in the meantime needed infrastructural
devlopment such as a national health service is deliberately run down to increase the
profit margins of aspirant investors.

read the article on Climate Camp at:-
http://www.indymedia.org/uk/en/2007/08/378022.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk

Heathrow Climate Camp

by Strategic Sun Aug 12, 2007 16:33

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74361
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76680

Between Feburary 16th 2006 and June 16th 2006, the houses of the Oireachtas moved
this legislation which envisages changes in our courts and how we develop planning.
It reduces access to judicial process and ameliorates the access of the corporate lobby
to cash from planning.

Within the period 2001-2007 a series of planning legislations by , Primarily Martin Cullen
and Noel Dempsey have eroded basic rights and facilitated eco crises such as Tara and
Rossport. The SIB reduces objection by failing to transpose the Aarhus convention in toto
into our legislation.

The Minister for the Environment must be aware that the legislations mitigate against
the individual and re-visit the progression from the Housing Bill (Miscellaneous Provisions)
2002 up to and including the Strategic Infrastructure Bill 2006.

He must reinstitute Statutory protections for natural and built heritage.

by C Murray Sun Aug 12, 2007 19:40

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378039.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/378022.html

The UK police are using tactics refined through G8, RTS and anti-terror legislation to
bring down the climate camp against the Heathrow development which is both economically
and ecologically unsustainable.

The Irish approach to conscientious objection involves devloping the PPP and the SIB
to criminalise protestors.

[The image of the activists on the giant tripods in the comments above is from the Climate
Camp thread on indymedia UK. the report on anti-terror tactics is in
http://www.guardian.co.uk [Saturday 11-08-07]

by Michael Martin Sun Aug 12, 2007 21:38

The writer of above article is mistaken ! Coillte never owned land along the N11. The land in question was owned by the OPW, which shortly after the start of the Glen campaign became Duchas. It was Duchas who transfered the land to Wicklow County Council. This never had anything to do with Coillte. I was on the Glen campaign, am living in the locality for 18 years and know every quarter inch around the Bellevue Woods / Glen O'Downs.

by strategic Sun Aug 12, 2007 21:48

Michael is quite right, the lands were illegally transferred by the dept to Ascon via duchas,
the rest of the article, I hope is to his satisfaction?
Factual inaccuracies are terrible things.

The Coillte lands extended up behind the octagon and into the golf course area, I hope the
varied planning bills dated 2001-2006 are accurate Michael and the use of Injunction to
imprison your former colleagues????