Stormont set remarkably tough climate change targets – but is belatedly realising these are legally enforceable and are going to rebound on the very parties which championed them
Northern Ireland’s planned path to net zero doesn’t stand up to scrutiny and is a legislative nightmare for Stormont
“Why do my actions have consequences?” the hapless Homer Simpson once lamented. It’s a question some senior Stormont figures must be asking themselves as they’ve stumbled into another fine mess of their own making.
What’s happened is that MLAs have accidentally tied their own hands.