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LANDOWNERS IN LEITRIM have vowed to resist what they see as an attempt to introduce fracking in the area.
Local farmers say that a survey being carried out on behalf of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies (DIAS) in a shale rich area known as the northwest carboniferous basin – comprising parts of Fermanagh, Cavan and Leitrim – could lead to fracking work.
Anti-fracking group Love Leitrim has expressed concern that the research work undertaken by DIAS involves carbon capture, a process involving the capture and burial of carbon dioxide to prevent it entering the atmosphere.
In a statement opposing the survey, the group cited a 2008 study by the Sustainable Energies Authority of Ireland concluding that carbon storage in the area would result in high well pressures and an unacceptable risk of well failure.
But Chris Bean of DIAS told TheJournal.ie that the Science Foundation Ireland-funded project is “purely academic”.
This is a totally non-invasive project testing magnetotelluric methodologies to see if they can be used in other locations. We are recording changes in the earth’s magnetic fields.
The site in question, he said, is not suitable for carbon capture and can only be used for academic tests.
He added that the project is currently based in Fermanagh and will only move to Leitrim if sufficient data cannot be collected there.
‘No consultation’
Love Leitrim, however, has urged local landowners not to give DIAS permission to work on their land.
It has also called on the cabinet, which is meeting in Sligo today, to stop “the ongoing petroleum prospecting activity on the ground without local consultation”.
Eddie Mitchell of Love Leitrim said that local and national representatives should “halt this continuous onslaught on our communities”.
Since our own state agencies has warned about the futility of this process, we have to ask ourselves why any organisation wants to pursue this and the answer seems very clear. What it looks like is the industry is trying to get around the Irish moratorium and is really searching for gas without a petroleum prospecting licence.
Council ban
Leitrim councillors last year voted to ban fracking, despite a warning from the county manager that they could be held financially responsible for future costs incurred as a result.
The motion led to a commitment to refuse permission to any development plans involving the controversial drilling method.
Fracking – the process of extracting gas and oil from sedimentary rocks such as shale – has prompted environmental concerns in the US, where campaigners say it has contaminated groundwater and affected air quality.
Tamboran Resources, an exploration company that tried to frack in the northwest carboniferous basin, faced round-the-clock demonstrations by anti-fracking campaigners before it was banned from drilling in the area.
They should be hung drawn and quartered for making me use that pesky messenger app!
Did you read the terms for having that messenger app.
Aw, you ok hun?
@Alan, after checking out your link I feel great having always declined facebook’s incessant offer of the messenger app. That is some scary schizz. I certainly would have blindly accepted the terms and conditions
Thx for posting that
How is it even legal what they are
Doing..deleted.
The way I see it, if people want me they can text me or call and I can pick up my Facebook message on the laptop
If you read t+c’s of the journal the app can view and delete contents on your sd card. Why?
Thanks for that link Alan, have just deleted it from my phone!
After looking at Alans’s link I thought what a load of old nonsense.
The author is clearly pretty clueless about app permissions on android.
Why don’t you check the permissions of any other messaging app you have on android, they all have pretty much the same.
This is just the standard android permissions written to be as scary as possible.
Check out google hangouts now standard on android, not only does it have all these permissions but it can access your location at any time and read and edit your calendar at any time Gasp!
Just more ant-facebook ain’t I cool hipster nonsense.
If you are worried about Facebook and your privacy
Do not be on Facebook
sticking your ass in the air
like you just don’t care
You fine sir,deserve a medal
Like
Facebook is worth about $200 billion all thanks to the data you give them. they profit from data on users.
Are people “liking” this as a joke?
watch “terms and conditions apply” on Netflix. It will open your eyes.
seen it, recommend everyone sees it, though it confirmed what i’ve always known. planned obsolescence docu is another interesting one.
In those T&Cs posted by the Huffington post, what is meant by a malicious app may do this without your permission? Is it talking about the messenger app or what?
No it’s not talking about the facebook app.
They are standard permissions that any app can ask for.
If you install some dodgy app from somewhere and it asks for those permissions it can do dodgy things and record audio and video all the time.
The facebook app asks to record audio and take pictures so it can support its voice message and picture and video sending abilities.
Also, android users check this out….. Open google (assuming your signed in) click account > account history > places you’ve been.
You can select each date and it will show you exactly where you were etc. Why….? well each time you enable location for maps apps etc…. in the settings menu > Location > On… you will see the message below flash up. Agree or disagree….. always disagree.
Location Consent !
Allow googles location service to collect anonymous location data. Some data may be stored on your device. Collection may occur even when no apps are running.
these people are delusional if they think they’re gonna get any $ of that sociopath Zuckerberg
You’d think Facebook would have registered fbclaim.com along with 20,000 intelligible variations for just such an occasion.
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