Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion
Professor Barry McMullin:
The economic viability of that facility seems to have evolved to focus on coupling it with a power station nearby and new, additional data centre-type load. It is all about a guaranteed market for what would be low-price gas from fracked gas in the United States, exclusive of the externalities of that.
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