Tag Archives: Greenies

Smashing the local suppliers

Posted on November 23, 2025 by martin

ExxonMobil is closing its Mossmoran chemical plant in Scotland. The reason is competition from ethylene exports from the US that are exempt from carbon tariffs. Yes, local production has to pay a tax that foreign sources do not. In much … Continue reading →

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Splitting at the seams

Posted on July 31, 2020 by martin

The Irish government coalition is barely a month old and already one Green Party TD has resigned and another sanctioned. As expected the party was never ready for the long-haul of actual power. And this was on a bill that … Continue reading →

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Goodbye recycling

Posted on December 4, 2014 by martin

The domestic waste policy of the UK may be a snooping-backed exercise in social engineering resulting in environmental disaster, but in all fairness it does have the redeeming feature that recycling is at least made reasonably easy. As a result … Continue reading →

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