Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion
Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source
My second question is to Professor Howarth. It is more a political than a scientific question. I read today that in the 1960s the United States - and the President of the United States - knew about climate change. That is from reports that came through from the US. The question is about the effect of lobbying, and money, and how that delays change and responses to issues. What is the effect of that lobbying in the US in the context of LNG? Is that lobbying transferable here, and in a European sense, in terms of the proposed terminal and how that can corrupt the entire system?
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