Brid Smith TD on The Tonight Show 13.6.19
Topics are Boris, Border and Carbon Tax
Tag: climate
Bríd Smith TD on the climate committee challenges govt parties.28.3.19
The debate was not honest – rather it was smoke and mirrors to hide the fact that the last thing the government wants to do is to tax the polluting corporations. They’d rather put the boot into ordinary people
Brid Smith TD on Sean O Rourke, RTE 1 Radio, 14.3.19
Climate Action Or Inaction Timmy Dooley, F.F. Party Spokesperson on Environment and Natural Resources, Brid Smith, People Before Profit TD Dublin South Central
Brid Smith TD speaking at Extinction Rebellion ‘Funeral for the Future’ protest Dublin March 3, 2019
Extinction Rebellion Ireland, to mark International Wildlife Day, organised an event at which I was honoured to speak.
Bríd queries Tory Lord on climate committee
Lord Deben (aka John Selwyn Gummer – Chairman of the UK Committee on Climate Change) was a witness at a Dail climate change committee. I had the opportunity to put a number of issues to him about environmental concerns here, before Xmas. All his responses were too long to include here but his defence of fracking is. That’s Tories for ya!
Bríd at Climate Change cmmte slams carbon tax for ordinary people; demands JUST TRANSITION.
Carbon tax should be paid by the fossil fuel corporations, not by ordinary people. A carbon tax thus applied could help pay for energy saving projects such as increased public transport and retrofitting homes. And if the government is concerned about climate change, it should support my Bill to ban fossil fuel exploration at sea