Carbon Tax is pushing people into fuel poverty
A Donegal TD says the government’s carbon tax policy is pushing people into fuel poverty. Thomas Pringle said Minister for the Environment and Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan ‘must’ve been joking when he said the budget would be ‘very green.’ He says people in rural areas are impacted…
Carbon tax – anothter attack on rural Ireland
This Week’s budget has been described as the most anti-rural budget in the history of the state and is another anti-rural declaration by the current government. Thar’s according to Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice. The Roscommon east Galway TD says the government are growing more and detached from rural areas like…
Government urged not to impose disproportionate tax on rural Ireland.
An increase in carbon tax in tomorrow’s budget could have a disproportionate impact on rural Ireland. That’s the view of Sligo Leitrim TD Marc MacSharry, who has raised concerns over the potential hike. An increase by Finance Minister Paschal Donohue would push up the cost of petrol, diesel, heating oil…
CEO of a leading fuel supplier in the North West says carbon taxes are leading to more emissions
The CEO of one of the north west’s leading fuel suppliers says carbon taxes in this country are leading to more emissions rather than reducing them. Peter Leyden is head of Arigna Fuels, a market leader in providing clean, environmentally-friendly, smokeless fuels to the Irish and UK markets. But he…