The Government must say no to fracking

Practically every single townland in west Clare is included in the shale gas extraction licensing agreement that has been issued to Enegi Oil.

Our beautiful part of the world is on the verge of becoming a rurally industrialised peninsular, where fields will be inhabited by huge wells, where bird song will be replaced by traffic and tourists surely won’t visit.

But we are told that shale gas extraction (fracking) will provide a solution to our growing demand for gas and that this inland method of extracting gas will provide between 10-15% of Europe’s energy needs.