Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Financial Implications of the Petroleum and Other Minerals (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Discussion
Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
If in 20 years' time, gas or oil is found and it is brought to the point of being able to be burned in this country, does the Minister of State not think that allowing these companies to pump billions of tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere would not breach our emissions limits and the whole idea of declaring a climate emergency and trying to deal with it?
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