Showing posts with label SEAI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SEAI. Show all posts

7.19.2015

Call for land-owners to refuse access to DIAS testing exercise

Belcoo Frack Free challenges lack of local consultation or explanation

2008 SEAI study has already found no opportunities for CCS in region

Chair of Belcoo Frack Free, Tom White, has asked local land-owners to refuse access to anyone wanting to carry out tests on behalf of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS).

“Once again further testing, for a different technology, is set to commence in the Summer when neither the Stormont Assembly or Dáil are sitting. This time it is to assess the potential for the Northwest Carboniferous Basin (including Fermanagh, Cavan and Leitrim) to become a zone for long-term carbon sequestration.