Reject ‘fracking’

Canadian activist Jessica Ernst, biologist and environmental expert 30 years working as an environmental consultant for the oil and gas industry says . . . Reject ‘fracking’

» BY MARK MOLONEY

Jessica Ernst

AS THE DEBATE on the controversial oil and gas exploration technique hydraulic fracturing (known as ‘fracking’), heats up, the newly-formed Good Energies Alliance Ireland (GEAI) has urged communities across the island to oppose the practice.

Fracking is a process of extracting gas from deep underground by pumping thousands of gallons of water mixed with rock-dissolving chemicals into the ground to break up the rock and allow trapped gas to move towards the surface, where it can be extracted. There are proposals to use this method in Fermanagh, Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon.

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