2024 saw significant progress in environmental activism in Northern Ireland, with public awareness and political action increasing. The article celebrates the achievements of activists, NGOs, journalists, and even politicians who fought for clean waterways, wildlife protection, climate change action, and responsible land use.
There really is a lot to be proud of as we look back on 2024 and everything our communities, activists, NGOs, journalists and even some politicians achieved for the environment in Northern Ireland .
Some of these campaigns have spanned years and some continue still, with everyday folks giving up their lives in some cases to educate politicians who still have a thing or two to learn about how, without a clean and healthy environment, we as a people can't thrive. While more local and eventually global headlines followed, it all started with concerned Ballyronan swimmer Mary O'Hagan, who first spoke out and has since taken up the fight against water pollution through Save Our Shores.
The above ground parts of the planning application were approved by Mid & East Antrim Council in 2012 - but Lady Chief Justice Siobhan Keegan ruled that Edwin Poots had acted 'irrationally' when giving the project a licence to pump the dissolved brine from creating the caverns into the sea when he led DAERA.
While the decision came suddenly following a flurry of reports about the lack of funding to protect Belfast Lough and our waterways from mounting sewage pollution caused by NI Water's crumbling infrastructure - it's huge. I first met Whitehead resident and QUB planning expert Dr Geraint Ellis in a quaint café in the town before taking a tour of the areas that would be impacted by this project, should it be approved. In my view Geraint deserves a medal for all he been through in relation to this campaign.
Clodagh Miskelly, who took the legal action for Stop Whitehead Oil Terminal group, said: "We are absolutely delighted that we secured a quashing of the planning permission.
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