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For Immediate Release Press Release October 3rd 2019: Majority of Irish MEPs tell the EU Commission not to allow Fracked Gas into Ireland via the Projects of Common Interest Process. The European Commission has designed a system to avoid high-level assessment Fianna Fail and Fine Gael MEPS refused to add their names to the Demands of the Majority of Irish MEPs. Click Here to Download Full Demands of Majority of Irish MEPs to the European Commission With no vote on the matter in Ireland, no high level assessment and no public consultation of Fracked Gas (or even LNG for that matter) in the Irish Energy Mix, the Majority of the Irish MEPS have voted with the one voice to say NO to fracked gas in Ireland. The MEPs are the voice of Ireland in Europe and their voice cannot be ignored. The European Commission has designed a system to avoid high-level assessment and the Irish MEPs could no longer stand idly by while Ireland risks approving with no public consultation, that Fracked Gas should be considered as being in the Irish National Interest. Any neutral observer can see that this is the result of powerful lobbying by the US fracked gas industry aiming to undermine the work of Government and Institutions throughout Europe in the fight against climate change for the real policy of Trade Over Climate. Next, the fracking lobby will be asking to reduce emissions by allowing them to frack in Ireland instead of bringing fracked gas from America.... that is what the fracking industry in the UK is now saying... You couldn't make it up really. It will ring hollow if we end up having to pay massive carbon taxes as we live so far from the Capital in County Kerry while all our electric cars are powered by US fracked gas, a fossil fuel more damaging to the Climate than the coal of Moneypoint.
They were all invited to do and none had accepted to do so by the deadline of this morning. The hypocrisy of it all. Click Here to Download Full Demands of Majority of Irish MEPs to the European Commission �
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