EPA want to grant Shell A License to frack in Ireland and the government keeps us divided over gay marriage!
Office of Climate, Licensing and Resource
Use
EPA Headquarters
PO Box 3000
Johnstown Castle Estate
County Wexford
7th May 2015
Objection to
Industrial Emissions Licence Review Application on Register of Licenses PO738-03
Shell
Postal Order for €126 enclosed.
To the EPA,
Millions of litres and euros-worth of fresh
water used pumped out gas from sea bed.
Fresh water again must be used to 'scrub' the gas of traces of salt water.
Will Shell pay for this water? - This week
when the Irish people have been told that they can have the cost of their water
use taken out of their benefits.
Fracked mainly methane gas from the sea bed
produces 20% more emissions than carbon dioxide.
Contamination is definite, earthquakes are
possible.
Shell is connected to Nepal's earthquake,
due to fracking in West China.
Shell's own emissions went up 10% per
barrel in 2012.
They are not accountable, not taking
responsibility for and the EPA know it.
I hold the EPA responsible if they don't
stop this license as they know that Shell will destroy the land and sea.
The drilling will upset sea life, thousands
of sea mammals and birds are disorientated and/or dying already. Can you
imagine being subjected to that massive vibration and toxicity under water,
permanently. You might come back in a next life as a fish and you’ll regret
having trashed the place.
30 to 70% of the chemicals used in fracking
re-surface.
Ireland and its ocean currents that hold
its climate in balance are already threatened.
Shell have shown no remorse for damage done
to people already. They are connected to Newmont who are the other violent
miners in Peru.
Shell are connected to China's CNBC, where
there is some of the greatest pollution in the world, that goes on unchecked by
their Environmental Agency.
This week, the people of the city of
Seattle are stopping Shell drilling in the Arctic. They will not let Shell’s
boats use their bay.
Ireland's EPA should have at least this
regard for Ireland and use
1. The authority bestowed on them as
licenser and
2. This eleventh hour opportunity to stop
Shell and
3. Insist they return the bay to its
natural state.
If the EPA want they can find out plenty more
of the valid environmental concerns about fracking, drilling into the sea,
bringing the toxic unrefined gas ashore, the use of water, the waste, the
contamination, the lack of fair recompense.
The EPA can establish that its a false
economy to jeopardize and destroy so much of a country for 3 year's only supply
of gas.
Please don’t let the ‘American driller’ in
either who wants to expand on Ireland’s gas fields. These companies only want
to use us up and spit us out.
Of all the fracked-up countries in all the
world, the only country that stands to benefit less than Ireland is the
Cameroon. Ireland doesn’t even get profits, they get a ‘service
agreement’.
There will be 150 jobs max created and at
least that many have been lost in the area.
The ruination will be completely on the
EPA’s head if they don’t stop it. The EPA can find many other claims against
Shell and well founded evidence to justify refusing them this license.
They can see that Shell being given 123
million euro last week to pay for insurance is a blatant admission of danger
and a blatant decision to be covered by insurance rather than mitigate the
risks.
I am enclosing the required fee of €126 to
make this objection. Shame on the EPA for setting a price so high, for people
to defend their country from a multi national.
I am sending this letter to the paper as
well so that everyone knows Shell’s license is up and the EPA can and should
refuse a license to shop Shell fracking this summer or ever.
A much better idea, if the EPA are looking
for one, is to protect Ireland’s fresh water and export that instead of cleaned
gas. Water is the natural resource that is really needed in every other country.
Shell must not be allowed to use it up.
The people shouldn't need to have the
www.shelltosea.com petition. Even senior An Bord Pleanala are quoted as saying
that Shell are wrong.
The repercussions of Shell are no less than
Ecocide. That is what the EPA are sanctioning if this license is granted.
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