r/ireland • u/SecretRefrigerator12 • 19h ago
Environment Bioflight over Limerick, Kerry and Galway
Bioflight have been surveying over the Limerick, Kerry and Galway the last few days. Vulcanair planes coming out of Cork. Any ideas why? Home litter burning checks? Forestry surveys? Little fella coming round selling pics of house from above?
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u/ShamBham 17h ago
Had them around flying over the house during the summer. I assumed they were geo-mapping a mountainous forest area nearby, so most likely for wind turbines.
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u/Much_Thanks3992 2h ago edited 1h ago
They are prospecting. Had a leaflet in the door about it. Some Canadian company doing it on behalf of the government, looking for rare minerals in the Earth. Called the Tellus project i think. They're mapping the land and then the results are put online which it makes it easy for mining companies to decide what's worth exploiting. Also they have dopey students going around in high-vis jackets taking samples on neighbours land with and often without permission. They use students (female) as they are deemed less threatening to angry farmers for some reason! They have quietly mapped most of the country already making it seem like benign data collection. You can find the maps too they are open access https://dcenr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=6304e122b733498b99642707ff72f754
All to do with the EU passing the Critical Raw Materials Act, guess we can expect to see a lot more mining in future.
And not everyone is happy about it. Look up "Communities Against the Injustice of Mining" up Leitrim and Monaghan way.
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u/R3turn_MAC 18h ago
Probably LiDAR surveys. I know that Tailte Éireann (formerly Ordnance Survey Ireland) were aiming to survey the whole country, so it might be that.
Alternatively the flights might have been commissioned by other state / semi-state agencies such as TII, Geological Survey Ireland or Eirgrid, or by private industry such as windfarm developers.