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Fracking Survey Plane in the skies over the North Coast
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Sunday February 19, 2012 23:59 by No To Fracking - No To Fracking notofracking at gmail dot com
The prospect of Fracking moves one ominous step closer in the North Coast. Join the No To Fracking campaign! This week ‘Rathlin Energy’ begin the latest phase in their bid to extract fossil fuel gas from the bedrock under the North Coast of Ireland. A survey plane will take off from Enniskillen and survey the mineral make-up of the land from Limavady, across Coleraine and Ballymoney, to Moyle district including Ballycastle. Previous exploration for shale gas has been carried out in the area already under a previous licence, but the current survey is the first major activity under the controversial licence granted specifically for the extraction of gas by hydraulic fracturing (fracking). |
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