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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.
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@Jackson Bollovks: Totally agree……but a little part of me is impressed at the lengths these lovely fellas have gone to on this occasion!
@Jackson Bollovks:
I don’t believe this story and I am not joking.
What’s the agenda??
@Pascal Coleman: these lovely fellows are a cancer in society, someone tell Fitzgerald and the untrustworthy commissioner to sort these criminals out.
They wouldn’t be operating if there wasn’t a market for what they are selling. I’ll bet that a lot of those who condemn their actions have no problem putting a few lines up their nostrils at the weekend.
@Clever Jake: jaysus how do they let you vote.
I blame the poles.
Legalize the drugs with a 15% tax & invest all proceeds to our hospitals! Someone is making serious money here & I doubt very much its whom we might think it is!!
@Colette Kearns: legalise cocaine? Yeah that would be very smart!!!!
@Colette Kearns:
Legalise cocaine…..what a stupid comment.
And 15% tax yet I pay 23% on nearly everything else I buy.
@Colette Kearns: the sad thing is there a lots of people that think it’s a bad idea to legalise drugs. Ignorance and hypocrisy.
@Karl Cleary, its the rich person’s drug so why not, doctors lawyers politicians religious people use it all the time ( dont know if you remember how they tested the top of loos in the dail bar & came up very positive for cocaine) If its made legal then there is more safety measures in place
Cocaine was legal in Victorian times and society didn’t fall apart. The Monarch’s Royal warrant was even affixed to nostrums containing it. That said, it causes heart attack and aggression, to say the least, and nobody is talking about legalising it seriously.
Decriminalising all drugs merely steers the user out of the criminal justice system and into the health system, not in any way lessening the sanctions and penalties against those who cause the harms, the dealers and pushers, kingpins and smugglers. In fact those sanctions can be increased if you like, without the current ineffectual targeting of sick people for their addictions.
@Barry Davidson: look how Portugal has handled drugs use, making it illegal hasn’t been a success.
@Gus Sheridan: maybe not but they won the Euros and Eurovision
Sang their hearts out they did.
@Colette Kearns: sure that would only make sense
@Pauliebhoy: and you can grow your own apparently…
@John O’Driscoll: they were probably high
I don’t see how the “strength” of the camera relates to it multi-tasking capability. Wrong adjective.
@Niall O Neill: It zooms up to 11.
@Jamie Mul: I was going to give you a thumbs up but you have 11 so I didn’t wanna run it.
Still sort of un breakable if that’s all they did……only different is the camera view!
Maybe they should have had extra cameras watching over big brother …
From the photo it looks to me that this giant of a surveillance camera with multiple zoom eyes, was placed directly overlooking obviously occupied houses and an estate!
Even if a criminal lived in my street I would not want that invasive monster on my footstep.
Thats the real injustice here.
Open air prisons.
@Brendan McLaughlin: yeah right bren
@Brendan McLaughlin: They need such CCTV to monitor a building site. Yeah, right.
Spot on Brendan, installed under the guise of watching over a building site in a classic case of distraction from the real purpose of spying on residents by Gardaí. No criminality here just resistance to big brother. Take the lesson to be very suspicious and cynical of authority when they say it’s for your own good.
@Revolting Peasant: no criminality here….. I live nearby and criminals are destroying the place and decent people have nothing to fear. Go educate yourself about the area. I nominate your comment stupidest of the year.
@Sean Murphy: I used to live up the road in Palmerstown, I know the area and its reputation but this is still state surveillance. How about proper policing, prosecution and sentencing of criminals as a deterrent ? take that to your paymasters.
@Sean Murphy: I’ll be generous to you and re-phrase as ‘no criminality in this instance’ if your have trouble with what was meant.
@Revolting Peasant: my paymasters?? Makes as much sense as your other comment. I’ve checked with person involved in repairing the cctv and he said there were s software built in this stop it focus into people’s homes. It blocks it out. So you can take your tin foil hat off. Ps comparing Palmerstown to Cherry Orchard is rediculous. Close geographically but miles apart in relation to effected by crime.
@Sean Murphy:
This is the site where a digger driver was petrol bombed whilst on the digger a couple of months back…
Maybe that is why it was installed??
@Sean Murphy: Yes paymasters you obvious shill, after all you know the cctv contractors.
Are the residents suppose to trust software? why do you think software has that name?
So how about some proper policing?
Cameras are designed that when you pan around any windows into private residences are digitally mapped and completely and dynamically greyed out. Standard feature across all council/garda systems.
Not foolproof though, where’s there’s a will there’s a way!
Did the shipment get through? If so why,if cops knew about it why wasn’t it seized?
@Michael Dickson: they call it a cocaine seizure in the article so I’d imagine they caught it
History has thought us that anything with the name unbreakable or something on the same lines is guaranteed to fail.
Examples:
Titanic – unsinkable
PS4 – unhackable
Unbreakable CCTV
In order words don’t challenge people with these coined phases because your just gonna look like an idiot in the end.
The PS4 and the Titanic. Utter tragedies. Yeah.
@Dylan McDonald: The Titanic was designed to withstand that which sunk it. The reason it sank was due to greed on the part of the engineers and the rest who built it as they cut corners and didn’t use the correct materials.
They’ll find a way to bring the next one down ! It’s a shame they didn’t used their determination and problem solving skills for a legitimate business it would be more valuable ! Also They should watch brainiac’s thermite experiments for inspiration !!
You can’t get a bank loan to start a legitimate biz these days. Especially not if your education topped out at nine years of age and your accent appearance and address make you generally unemployable in the eyes of banks and businesses anyway.
The next CCTV should be less visible so you can catch these criminals in the act
Put propellers on it and stick it up in the air higher than the dealers.
@John O’Driscoll: Or slap aload of emoji and Google stickers on it
I was wondering why they didn’t just tool up with a load of paintball guns and just cover the lens in gloop. Tony Montana Irish style. “Hey camera meet my liddle friend!!” Splat. Not rocket science. Well a bit.
@Michael alder: maybe attach a minigun to it ?
@John O’Driscoll: you would have to a good shot, It would be beyond the average Dublin hitman’s ability.
That pole was never an undestructable one. They need one of the poles they use on the motorways junctions .
now you need a camera to watch the camera
The gardai are clever basta*ds using for their own ends a cctv system installed by DCC.
Good article, no schoolboy errors or spelling mistakes. Nice to see for a change.
Release the drones.
Well placed …..? do they have a job in the civil service or a bank with a good pension or something ? Or are the second on the last lap making good time for a final sprint to the victory line in a race somewhere ?
An unbreakable pole.. just asking for trouble eon that one.
What didnt they set it in large concrete pad similar to those used for floodlights. The truck wouldnt lift that!
Looks like they need unbreakable bollards to protect this unbreakable camera pole!!
Why was so much money spent on this camera system to watch the construction of modular homes? Who owns the site? Who is building the homes?
Concrete blocks…
@RogerRamjet: yes. Great big Lego type concrete blocks
She’s up the pole
No alarm on pole linked to nearest Guard Station!
I once volunteered to bring children from disadvantaged areas around UCD to encourage them to pursue an academic career. They were a great bunch and bright as buttons but I digress. The idea was that they’d get lectures from professors in different disciplines. The Engineering professor handed them an unbreakable fibreglass aircraft wing and asked them to try and break it. He had probably done the same in countless lectures before to more refined students. The children from the advantaged areas succeeded however by forming a pyramid and dropping one of the big boned boys from a height onto it. The prof in question was furious and complained bitterly about the broken wing as it had apparently cost quite a good deal of money but to my mind he only had himself to blame!
Cherry orchard put the rents up and let the locals pay for the damage or put a big wall around this dump and let them pray on each other!
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Sounds like they need to install a camera to keep an eye on it…
Would it not be better to use very small cameras inserted into walls and monitor a larger area . and why are the cameras not turned around at the banks .sure the biggest thieves are behind the counters ?
What brand of camera was it?…..
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