Therefore, through a lens of green criminology, this article analyses the political economy of the Mobuoy illegal dump and examines the role of the political system in Northern Ireland in reproducing loopholes in the waste management system. [...] While the state retreats to a small government approach to ‘get out of the way’ of the free market, environmental regulations are seen as obstacles to the free market and the free flow of capital between countries, so deregulation becomes the order of the day. [...] Years after the discovery of the Mobuoy illegal dump, the Department of the Environment, led by MLA Mark H 4 Advance online publication Hwang Durkan from the Social Democratic and Labour Party, circulated a discussion document on the independence of the NIEA, which admitted that: A higher degree of independence should allow greater flexibility to make the changes necessary to speed up decisions an. [...] As the indiscriminative extraction of aggregates may cause serious damages to the environment and public health, the United Kingdom introduced the aggregates levy mechanism to ‘internalize the environmental costs of aggregates production in order to discourage the extraction of virgin aggregates and to promote the use of recycled and alternative materials’ (Merchante 2011: 1). [...] juneseo.hwang@uni-hamburg.de 1 Questions for the interview include: 1) self-introduction (in regard to the scope of knowledge on the Mobuoy illegal dump; 2) any (perceived) impact of the discovery of the Mobuoy illegal dump on local communities and the environment in Derry; 3) opinion on a public inquiry into the Mobuoy illegal dump; 4) feedback to procedures and mechanisms for public participatio.
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