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April 14, 2021 5:02 pm The direction of the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has the “potential to destroy farm viability in Ireland”, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has claimed. Addressing the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture today (Wednesday, April 14), IFA president Tim Cullinan warned the focus of the CAP reform “has the potential to destroy farm viability” in this country, adding:  “At present, Teagasc has identified that only a third of farmers in...

March 11, 2021 8:39 am Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has been called on to intervene and ensure the withdrawal of a European Council of Ministers proposal on the management of peat-based soils. The calls for the minister to act are being made by Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) this week. The council’s proposal which is covered under eligible hectare in GAEC (Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition) 2 will “create a situation that a...

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending January 15th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 187 billion cubic feet to 3,009 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies just 36 billion cubic feet, or 1.2% higher than the 3,045 billion cubic feet that were in storage on January 15th of last year, but still 198 billion cubic feet, or 7.0% above the five-year average of 2,811 billion cubic feet of nat...

By Jack Cohen-Joppa In Russian, her name means love. And it’s true. Lyubov Kudryashova loves the broad valley of Russia’s Tobol River, where it meanders out of Kazakhstan into the Kurgan Oblast. Her grandfather is buried there, she was born there, and she’s raised three sons there. As far as she knows, her ancestors have always lived there. There, below the southern Urals, frigid continental winters give way to spring floods that inundate a landscape of oxbow lakes, wetlands, forests and ...

By Jack Cohen-Joppa In Russian, her name means love. And it’s true. Lyubov Kudryashova loves the broad valley of Russia’s Tobol River, where it meanders out of Kazakhstan into the Kurgan Oblast. Her grandfather is buried there, she was born there, and she’s raised three sons there. As far as she knows, her ancestors have always lived there. There, below the southern Urals, frigid continental winters give way to spring floods that inundate a landscape of oxbow lakes, wetlands, forests and ...

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending December 11th indicated that the quantity of natural gas held in underground storage in the US had decreased by 122 billion cubic feet to 3,726 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 284 billion cubic feet, or still 8.3% higher than the 3,442 billion cubic feet that were in storage on December 11th of last year, and 243 billion cubic feet, or 7.0% above the five-year average of 3,483 billion cubic fe...

MVP Cleared by FERC for Construction Near National Forest; Glick Calls Decision ‘Nonsensical’ In a split decision, FERC on Thursday authorized Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC (MVP) to resume construction activities within a 25-mile exclusion zone near the Jefferson National Forest. The order, part of the agenda for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s monthly meeting Thursday, allows for some construction between mileposts 196.0 and 221.0 of the pipeline, where work had been on hold fo...