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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Just one more issue I'm working through.
> I’m still pissed off at their neutrality during WWII.
Why? They had nothing to gain by helping the UK out. And everything to lose by helping the Germans.
They weren’t really neutral. Prime Minister Eamon de Valera actually sent condolences to Germany upon hearing of Adolf’s demise. Ireland’s envoy to Nazi Germany, Charles Bewley, also happened to sport a toothbrush mustache.
Apparently they need “Poop here” signs. Is there an artist at FR??
They absolutely HATE the British. Thankfully they didn’t join the Nazis(officially). Hitler probably would have offered them the North if they Joined them.
The U.K. was financially and militarily exhausted when Ireland waged its war for independence. In 1940 and 1941, British armed forces were at full strength. Reconquest of Ireland would have been relatively easy. Churchill would not have hesitated if Ireland joined the Axis. The large Irish American population would have been outraged by British reconquest, but the Japanese dragged us into World War II anyway.
I didn’t think the Irish were that stupid; I was wrong.
EU doing everything they can to ensure Eirexit.
The Eire government was officially neutral but almost 5,000 members of the Irish defence forces left their own units and joined up with allied forces, mainly British. After the war they were denied pensions and unemployment by the Irish government. De Valera was officially neutral but was in fact pro Axis.
“I didn’t think the Irish were that stupid; I was wrong.”
Ever hear of WOTUS that Obama had passed?
“EU Nitrates Directive”
And that has exactly what to with “free trade” in a European free trade union??? Zero, zip, nada.
The U.K. is right to be rid of the EU and its unnecessary meddling.
“fence off cattle to prevent them accessing rivers and streams”
Don’t we do that here in USA?
Not because a foreign government orders us to, I don’t think. Or even due to some Obama-era regulation that I haven’t heard of yet.
Somewhere a failed 2016 democrat presidential candidate is missing her Depends.
Perhaps in another decade or two they will hate Brussels...
Understandable though, as the British were not worthy of being considered an ally after occupying Ireland for what, 800 years or so?
Why Papa Joe Kennedy was a Nazi Symp, until he realized it was bad politically.
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