Source: Traditional Unionist Voice – Northern Ireland
Responding to today’s ruling on the A5, TUV leader Jim Allister KC MLA said:
“The first thing to note about today’s judgement is that there are many farmers in West Tyrone who will be breathing a sigh of relief.
“More generally, the judgment is yet another outworking of the green hysteria that has taken hold of our legislative and judicial systems.
“Many of those now wringing their hands over the impact of this decision are the very MLAs who gleefully voted for the Climate Change Act and its legally binding targets – targets that were never grounded in reality, but in virtue-signalling and ideological zeal. They have reaped what they sowed.
“Quite apart from the merits or otherwise of the A5 project, Northern Ireland is being strangled by the net zero obsession. Infrastructure, agriculture, and industry are being sacrificed at the altar of climate ideology.”