Lights over Dublin

Lights over Dublin:

Just a idea. Perhaps we could log on to their site and write:
"Save our night skies" on their beams!

Even if not possible a nice thought.

Do www.dublinelevation.net have an e-mail address?
We could tell them what we think.

John O'Neill
I.A.S.

THe only address I could find on the site is the following so I saw we let loose!

siobhancolgan@dast.gov.ie

To get the ball rolling I sent the following:

Dear Sir/madam,

Polluting our skies is not art but vandalism and I am disgusted that my tax money is being wasted by literally beaming it into space.

Light pollution is a major problem that I would expect my government to be spending money on prevention rather than helping cause the problem.

For more information on the light pollution issue please have a look at www.irishastronomy.org/ilpac/

Bart Busschots.

With 154,000 watts of power, the beams of light will be visible from a distance of 15 kilometres.

Yea... with billions upon billions of wats of power the stars should be visible in the night sky...

I'll be sending a couple of letters to:

Siobhan Colgan
Press Relations Manager - Cultural Programme
Ireland 2004 Presidency of the European Union
Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
Frederick Buildings
South Frederick Street
Dublin 2
Ireland

Tel 353 1 631 3936
Fax 353 1 631 3956
Mobile 353 87 7992330
email siobhancolgan@dast.gov.ie

John O'Donoghue,
Minister for Arts, Sport & Tourism,
Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism,
23 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 and
Frederick Buildings, South Frederick St, Dublin 2

Please send me copies of any correspondence so I can put them on the ilpac site.

Cheers,
~Al