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This week's, we talk to activist lawyer, Maria McCloskey, former director of Public Interest Litigation Support in Belfast, NI about how she worked with grassroots climate justice activists - the Stop Whitehead Oil Terminal (SWOT) campaign - to bring a successful legal challenge to plans to develop a major fossil fuel terminal in a quiet seaside town near Belfast.
Learn more:
The Stop Whitehead Oil Terminal campaign: https://stopwhiteheadoilterminal.org/
Public Interest Litigation Support (PILS): BLOG: Whitehead, the oil terminal and what happens next - The PILS Project
The PILS Toolkit also covers some legal concepts that Maria mentions in her interview (judicial review, public interest litigation) and explains them in an NI context: pilsni.org/toolkit/
Also check out the PILS glossary of legal terms
And finally, here is the full ITV clip (30 June 2025) featured in the episode: https://www.itv.com/watch/news/climate-time-bomb/3203hv8
Find out more at https://lawmanity.pinecast.coRead transcript
This week's, we talk to activist lawyer, Maria McCloskey, former director of Public Interest Litigation Support in Belfast, NI about how she worked with grassroots climate justice activists - the Stop Whitehead Oil Terminal (SWOT) campaign - to bring a successful legal challenge to plans to develop a major fossil fuel terminal in a quiet seaside town near Belfast.
Learn more:
The Stop Whitehead Oil Terminal campaign: https://stopwhiteheadoilterminal.org/
Public Interest Litigation Support (PILS): BLOG: Whitehead, the oil terminal and what happens next - The PILS Project
The PILS Toolkit also covers some legal concepts that Maria mentions in her interview (judicial review, public interest litigation) and explains them in an NI context: pilsni.org/toolkit/
Also check out the PILS glossary of legal terms
And finally, here is the full ITV clip (30 June 2025) featured in the episode: https://www.itv.com/watch/news/climate-time-bomb/3203hv8
Find out more at https://lawmanity.pinecast.coRead transcript
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