Having an auld look around on Google Earth. Is Lough Neagh actually this fucked with green algae??

by I_reddit_badly

31 comments

  2. Fucked if its true.
    Anyone have an answer?  Yeagh or Neagh?

  3. Yep, it’s seriously bad. Even if they start now it’s going to take years to get all of the chemicals out of the water and sediment, and Stormont is so dysfunctional they can’t agree on anything.

  4. It’s actually worse that shown there. It’s owned by the 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, so still under feudalism

    Oh, and it supplies 40% of N Ireland’s drinking water.

  7. The Earl just dyes it green for Paddy’s day, like they do in Chicago

  8. No and there aren’t giant signs across the ground for ‘google’ ‘Hunter J G’ ‘Lough Neagh mirror houses’ ‘Bay cottage bed and breakfast.’ These are computer generated images and processes going on.  

  10. If this isn’t a reason for unification idk what is. Stormont is a joke for letting this go on

  13. It looks like the owner, some aristocratic heir, is the person to pressure. Hard to believe that we’re dealing with this in the 21st century…but how do we get his contact details? Deserves a messaging campaign as a starting point.

  14. My parents live near to Lough Neagh. The algae is awful, genuinely looks like cement sitting on top of the surface.

  15. This is simply the coloniser mindset of raping(ecologically) Ireland continued to this day.

  16. There must be some way of marketing a green lake at gullible Irish Americans. Make the most of a bad situation here lads

  18. Similar on Lough Ree. We need to look at the underlying problem here too and not just tutt at the Northern Ireland Assembly. Placards in many places warning people away and how it’s fatal for dogs.

  19. It will never cease to amaze me how Ireland is so rural and underpopulated, but still seems to have all the drawbacks of more populated and urban countries anyway.

  20. Yes it is that bad, they have it ruined, the lake is choking to death and nothing being done, a warning to us in the south, it can go very bad very fast

  21. When I watched a YouTube documentary about this it really made me feel that Britain is not remotely interested in or capable of being a responsible caretaker of this land. 

  22. You’d think the DUP and other unionist parties would be fanatical in their efforts to remove the green from Lough Neagh.

  23. It honestly looks like a mountain side covered in forest, WTAF.

  24. It is fucked by the farmers all around the Lough , mainly.

    They shouldn’t be allowed to spread slurry or fertiliser on fields adjacent to the lough shore .

    A simple fix, or first step .

  25. I’m willing to wager my left testicle that nothing will change in the long term.

  26. This is really depressing. What is the main cause of this?

  29. If this isn’t proof of governments and the elites not giving a fuck about us regular folk, then nothing is. 40% of NI’s drinking water is sourced from Lough Neagh.

    Absolutely fucking disgusting!

  30. Yep, it’s proper fucked. Will take a generation to resolve.

  31. I was here less than a week ago and the layer of this algae around the shore is so thick it looked like neon green melted plastic, absolutely horrific

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