Another reason to be proud ... Ireland the only country in Europe not to have implemented the Aarhus convention

The Green Party promised.

But surprise, surprise we have another Green Party promise as yet unfulfilled.

And Ireland remains the only country in Europe not to have fully implemented the Aarhus convention on access to environmental information.

Sr Majella McCarron of the Table human rights monitoring group has claimed that our failure to fully implement the Aarhus convention is hindering its handling of the Corrib gas dispute. Sr McCarron has also claimed that the right to fair trial has been breached in recent court proceedings relating to the dispute. She was commenting on the publication of her group’s new report on the situation in north Mayo – the second such report it has compiled on Corrib.

Sr McCarron said if the convention was fully implemented, people would not have to protest and risk arrest to highlight a lack of information on authorisations for various works.

Link to this story in the Irish Times, May 31st, 2010.