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"Mr President, I urge Member States not to authorise any new hydraulic fracturing operations in the EU.
It is clear from past experience in countries such as America and from studies that fracturing does pose unacceptable risks to the environment, to public health and to local constituents. This comes at a time when really we should instead be investing in renewables such as wave and wind, of which we have a lot in Ireland.
Research shows and governments have had to admit, like the government in Poland, that companies and governments almost always nearly overestimate shale gas deposits in order to support their actions. Notwithstanding the environmental impact caused by emissions created by fracturing, the considerable amount of constituency concern is entirely understandable given the very real risk posed by fracking to both agriculture and tourism in places of beauty like Fermanagh.
So these two sectors are vitally important to the Irish economy and given its current fragile state it is absolutely baffling that corporate interest should outweigh the interests of the citizen."@en1
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