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NIEL NEWS 89 Loopland Drive BELFAST BT6 9DW T: 028 9045 5770 F: 028 9094 2151 E: Info@Nienvironmentlink.Org W Volume 9 * Issue 4 * May 2008 NIEL NEWS 89 Loopland Drive BELFAST BT6 9DW T: 028 9045 5770 F: 028 9094 2151 E: [email protected] W: www.nienvironmentlink.org Inside this Issue... Director Sue Christie News from NIEL 2 [email protected] Assembly News 5 Policy Officer Seamus og Gallagher Climate Change News 8 [email protected] Members’ News 10 Communications & Membership Officer Stephanie Baine News from EEF 14 [email protected] Environmental News 15 Office Manager Sandra Kilpatrick Publications 19 [email protected] Consultations 20 Administrative Officer Iona Meyer Environmental Events 22 [email protected] Part-time Administrative Officer Training & Resources 25 Karen Nicholson [email protected] Funding 26 EEF Co-ordinator Recruitment 27 Andy Griggs [email protected] Copyright Notice: Items may be reprinted freely with acknowledgement to NIEL or specified authors. Submissions for NIEL News Disclaimer: We welcome your contributions for NIEL Some articles featured have been edited for length News. If you’d like us to publicise your or relevance. NIEL has placed no additions or changes news and events please send details to of emphasis upon the articles unless indicated. Articles [email protected] or post. The are the views of NIEL or its members. copy deadline is the 1st of every month. Note: All items included in a previous edition have been highlighted in grey. News from NIEL NIEL Staff Karen Nicholson recently started with NIEL as our new Administrative Officer. Karen will Update be working part time and is going to take over much of the work behind NIEL News. She comes from a very experienced background with the Irish School of Ecumenics (Trinity College Dublin) and we are delighted to welcome her to the group. She is married to Kerry who comes originally from Dunmore East, Co Waterford. Kerry works in administration for The Cedar Foundation and is based at their Balmoral Training Centre. They live in Belvoir Park opposite the road into Belvoir Forest with their three cats! From their home they enjoy watching the comings and goings of the forest wildlife including foxes, badgers and lots of bird life including a visit from a heron last winter! In her spare time Karen enjoys working on her allotment at Annadale where she grows all sorts of flowers, fruit and vegetables; reading and being part of a book group; swimming; walking and attending yoga classes. She loves holidaying in Scotland and the South of France and visits these places every year as well as regular trips to Kerry’s family in the sunny south east of Ireland! NIEL is also delighted to announce its senior Policy Officer Seamus óg Gallagher is soon to be made into an honest man. Early in May, his fiancée Iona will be walking down the aisle to agree to start sharing her life with Seamus óg. Iona there is still time….. NIEL has been lucky enough to have had six student placements from Queen’s School of Biological Sciences MSc Course in Ecological Management and Conservation Biology. Over the last month David McCann, Keiran Flood, Edmund Orr, Kevin Haughian, Anthony Morrow and Suzie McIlwain have been giving us a great deal of help. Thanks to all of you. NIEL Members Thank you all those members that have filled out the NIEL Member’s Survey. We really appreciate the time you gave us and will soon be able to look at how to improve all our Survey services to our members. We also hope to update our Members’ Directory in the Summer. Dates for your Date Event Venue Contact Diary 13th May Planning Task Force NIEL Seamus 10.00am 16th May Freshwater Task Force Rowallane Seamus House 21st May Biodiversity - Members NIEL Seamus 10.00am Networking Event 21st May NI Marine Task Force TBC Seamus 27th May NIEL Finance Committee NIEL Sue 10.00am 27th May NIEL Executive Committee NIEL Sue 11.30am 9th June NIAF Meeting NIEL Sue 10.30am 18th June Conference ‘Food, Farming & Cultra Manor, Sue/Stephanie 9.30am the Environment – the Future’ Ulster Folk & Transport Museum 18th June NIEL AGM Cultra Manor, Sue/Stephanie 3.30pm Ulster Folk & Transport Museum 24th June NIEL Strategic, Information & NIEL Stephanie 10.30am Membership Committee Meeting NIEL NEWS May 2008 2 News from NIEL NIEL Meetings April Committee for NIEL members testified during a meeting of the Committee looking at climate change issues and presented information on the impacts of climate change on personal and public Health, SS and health. Gary McFarlane (CIEH) and Patricia Mackey (SNI) attended. PS – 21 April Meeting with A very constructive meeting where we learned of the excellent work the DHSSPS is doing on their new developments. A comprehensive assessment procedure to ensure that all John Cole, aspects are considered in each development has been prepared and is in use. Many of their Sustainable new development are state of the art on UK and global terms. We encouraged them to Development promote this work throughout government and councils, and they agreed to help us in our outreach. Terry Waugh (Action Renewables), Gary McFarlane (CIEH). Seamus Gallagher Champion, and Sue Christie attended; Keith Millar of DHSSPS also present. DHSSPS – 22 April Committee on We presented a summary of our comments on the consultation and answered questions during our one hour session. Questions seemed to be designed to help develop a positive Agriculture support structure for renewables in agriculture. We stressed the need for support for and Rural both new crops/land uses and especially for exploitation of waste products as sources of Development renewable energy. Action Renewables had an hour before us and WWF an hour after. Sue – Enquiry into Christie, Patricia Mackey (SNI) and Peter Christie (AFBI) attended. Renewable Energy and Land Use. 1 May. Minister for the The Minister had a day long series of meetings with a variety of groups involved in the National Park in the Mournes debate; NIEL was invited to attend the ‘interested NGOs’ Environment event. Progress on the Park is extremely slow; while it appeared the Minister is reasonably Arlene Foster – well disposed, the vehement opposition of local land owners is a serious problem. It was National Park proposed that a number of avenues be explored – enabling legislation, pilot projects in AONBs, work on access and liability – which may help to allay their fears before moving Discussions - 1 forward on the park itself. Some 25 NIEL members and other groups were present. May. John McGrath A meeting of a number of people concerned with SD in education operations and policy met to encourage a greater degree of integration of SD into both the curriculum and actual – SD Champion operations in DE work in schools. The opportunities this provides for coordination and for Dept for effective teaching were stressed, and the concept of schools as centres for community Education. 2 SD was presented. A very rushed meeting, and we will be providing a follow-up note and proposal for action. Sue Christie, Shirley Lewis (Baglady Productions), Liz Wallace (WELB), May. Brigid Murray (BELB) and Steve Aston (EHS) attended. The Agriculture is a key example of how human activities have profound impacts on the International ecosystems of our planet. Day for This year’s theme for the International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD), “Biodiversity and Biological Agriculture,” seeks to highlight the importance of sustainable agriculture not only to preserve biodiversity, but also to ensure that we will be able to feed the world, maintain Diversity agricultural livelihoods, and enhance human well being into the 21st century and 22 May 2008 beyond. Biodiversity and Agriculture http://www.cbd.int/ibd/2008/ Convention on Biological Diversity NIEL NEWS May 2008 3 News from NIEL - Task Forces Miss Earth County Fermanagh beauty queen, Aine Gormley, Ireland added her voice to the growing chorus of support for an Environmental Protection Agency as she delivered delivers EPA 3000 campaign postcard to MLAs at Stormont on campaign Wednesday 15th April. message to MLAs at 26 year old Ms Gormley wore the stunning ball gown that she wore in the Philippines when she won the title Stormont of Miss Earth as she delivered her campaign message to legislators at Parliament Buildings. As a PhD Student Coalition for with the University of Ulster in freshwater pollution, she Environmental was horrified by the State of the Environment report Protection launched recently. She is backing an EPA to replace the DOE Environment Heritage Service in Northern Ireland, the only region in the United Kingdom and Ireland not to have an independent organisation fulfilling this role. Miss Earth explained why she backed the campaign “During the international finals of Miss Earth I was proud to represent a country that was perceived by people across the globe as enjoying high environmental standards. But in reality, this is very different. As The State of the Environment Report shows, we have poor water quality, a growing mountain of waste, problems of illegal dumping and sky-high carbon emissions.” The event was organised by the Coalition for Environmental Protection. NIEL is one of the prominent members and Seamus was delighted to be involved in this particular event. SNI & NIEL SNI together with NIEL ran a half day seminar for the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (DCAL) to promote sustainable development to both their employees and member Sustainable organisations. Examples of those present at the seminar were DCAL central services as well Development as the Education and Library Boards, Museums, Arts Council and Waterway Ireland. Seminar with The purpose of the seminar was to demonstrate to delegates the importance and relevance Department of of sustainable development, the Sustainable Development Strategy and the Duty for Culture, Arts & Sustainable Development to their organisation and their job.
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