YOUR report on the warning about the danger to Ailwee Caves and the Pol an Ionáin stalactite (Tourist sites under threat from extraction of resources, August 5) on fracking is timely, not only because of the recently granted exploration licences to three companies over 1,481 sq kms and the call for a public debate, but also because of the recently released Commission for Energy Regulator’s Consultation Paper On The High Level Design Of The Petroleum Safety Framework.

YOUR report of last week’s meeting of Kerry County Council treated us to a re-run of the ‘environmentalist and the snail’ story (Snail blamed for delays to Cork-Kerry road plan, June 22). We were told a judicial review on behalf of the snail by “environmentalists” was holding up the road.