Requirement to cease operations under Section 24(1)d in respect of licence WW10-FL0237
WW10-FL0237 Acute Water incident (Coillte forestry)
Coillte
AIE Request – Forest Birds Project FU IR
Coillte 20240205
Walkover survey_01092023 records three Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers
Breeding Cormorant Survey
This survey aims to determine the presence / absence of breeding Cormorant at a proposed Coillte clearfell forest site located at [redacted] Co. Tipperary
Proposed Terms of Reference: Irish Forest Birds Monitoring Group, with initial focus on hen harrier & merlin
Forest Birds Training Summary
Forest Birds Working Group Proposal
Walkover Survey Form
AIE Request: whether Coillte has established that it did not hold any further information in accordance with article 7(5) of the AIE Regulations (plus related Coillte fees)
Operational Monitoring Records for works carried out in Forest Property CE07
Case: OCE-138317-J2K0C3
Forestry licence: CN93132 Forest Road, 775(m)
Lissatinnig, Dromnakilly, Kerry
Appeal grounds
Notes:
If an application to afforest the lands was submitted it would be refused because of the peat depth – why does the Forest Service consider it to be Good Forestry Practice to construct a Forest Road over land that it would not permit to be afforested?
The Forest Service continues to licence reforestation on sites that it would not permit to be planted.
Peat depth is measured in the field on certain afforestation projects – but often just to 30cm + rather than a measure of the full depth.
OCEI decision overturning Coillte refusal of access to records related to CN92945
AIE: Coillte’s ESRA’s (Environmental and Social Risk Assessment) for a range of chemicals used on the Coillte estate
Stakeholder reference number 3838- Issue Pesticides Use and Other Chemicals
AIE: Whether Coillte was justified, under article 9(1)(d) of the AIE Regulations, in refusing access to records relating to the HydroSed project
Case: OCE-129327-G3R3L5
Appellant submitted a request to Coillte seeking access to: “All environmental records relating to the ongoing HydroSED project to include, but not restricted to:
- Methodology
- Interim Reports
- Preliminary findings
- Correspondence
- GIS data (in GIS format)
“18. The date for Coillte’s response to the Investigator’s request for submissions was 12 September 2024 and Coillte was subsequently granted a number of extensions. Although Coillte sent a few emails to this Office, indicating that submissions and a revised schedule of records would be provided, no submissions have been received to date and Coillte did not respond to the Investigator’s latest request for an update on 15 November 2024.”
List of WWXX Biodiversity Assessments (Coillte’s ecological assessments of BioClass sites in Wicklow)
Coillte Bioclass Definitions
Coillte use a bioclass number of 1-4 to rank the importance of biodiversity areas, based on their ecological characteristics and overall importance for biodiversity and nature conservation
Note: Scope of AIE request reduced to a sample of reports
AIE: afforested lands on Bord na Móna landbank
Bord na Mona Lands leased to Coillte
Download maps in shp file here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KXLaY16v_cU1GPZKsSac4iSou0CPcYXy?usp=sharing
BnM and Coillte Native Woodland Establishment on Cutover Peatland
Note: NPWS have no record of receiving the above report (April 2019, Project sponsors: Stuart Conaty (BnM) and [Redacted]. Report prepared by: [Redacted] Declan Little (Woodlands of Ireland, Ken Byrne)
Internal Review
Note
With regard to record 1) of Category 2), BnM Coillte Native Woodlands Establishment Report 26042019 Final, this is not an “ecology report on afforestation lands on Bord na Bord na Móna [landbank]”, as was requested. Rather, it is a feasibility study in relation to a proposed joint initiative between Coillte and Bord na Móna with a view to increasing native forest cover on cutover peatlands at a national level.
SOP-049 Monitoring: Pre-Harvest Natural Regeneration of Conifers
AIE Request 20240176 (remitted) Coillte