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Environmental group challenges "industrial" peat extraction
Summary
Friends of the Irish Environment has lodged a High Court judicial review against the State, challenging new 2019 regulations that permit industrial peat extraction without planning permission, arguing they create a retention mechanism for unauthorised activity. The group claims the regulations, known as the 2019 European Union Environmental Impact Assessment (Peat Extraction) Regulations and the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) regulations 2019, fail to comply with EU directives on environmental protection. The action targets the Ministers for Communication, Climate Action and Environment, Housing, Planning and Local Government, Ireland, and the Attorney General, seeking orders to quash the regulations and declarations that the statutory instruments contravene EU directives on special environmental assessments, habitats and impact assessments.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: Environmental group challenges "industrial" peat extraction. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision
When:
- 2019-04-29 Publication
Places mentioned
- High Court
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