The Department of Environment, Community and Local Government have issued a consultation document on a review of domestic provisions implementing Article 9 “Access to Justice” of the Aarhus Convention. The consultation document and associated response form can be found here, environ.ie/en/Environment/AarhusConvention/PublicConsultation/ The deadline is 26th September 2014. The three pillars of the Convention are as follows: 1 Access to information on the environment - this allows members of the public access to a wide range of information on the environment, including information on the state of the environment, associated policies and measures, and on the state of human health and safety, where this can be affected by the state of the environment. 2 Public participation – requires that parties to the Convention facilitate public participation in decisions about the environment; public authorities must have mechanisms in place to enable the public affected and environmental NGOs to comment on, for example, proposals for projects affecting the environment, or plans and programmes relating to the environment. 3 Access to justice – provides that the public have access to independent review procedures that are timely, equitable and not prohibitively expensive, to challenge decisions relating to the environment. Neil van Dokkum if you are not familiar is a barrister and lecturer of Law at WIT, has prepared a response. Please email me @ dawturbines@gmail and I will email it to you with the simple instructions on what to do. PLEASE do this, if we force our government to engage in public participation we may end the cronyism that goes on behind closed doors.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 20:55:15 +0000
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