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March 2023

The Explainer x Noteworthy: What is the environmental cost of hydropower?

Reporter Anthea Lacchia tells Susan Daly about declining fish stocks and significant changes in Ireland’s longest river.

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Mar 8th 2023, 2:30 PM

ESB ‘being given free pass’ to divert water without ecological assessments

An Taisce expert says new legislation that impacts rivers and lakes used for hydroelectricity is ‘categorically unlawful’.

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Mar 8th 2023, 1:30 PM

'Death by a thousand cuts': Hydropower killing, injuring and trapping fish by the tonne

A report by

Anthea Lacchia

Noteworthy investigates barriers along the River Shannon as deaths recorded at ESB stations and salmon hatcheries.

Huge declines in fish stocks have occurred over the last century

Fish passes on many rivers are not fit for purpose, with experts calling for removal of obsolete barriers

Ecologists and community members are lamenting decades of government and ESB inaction

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Mar 7th 2023, 12:05 AM