Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion

Ms Julia Walsh:

There is some usage through pipelines but there is a glut of gas. The companies and the industry have not had a plan since the beginning, when the industry and practice were exempted from some of our most important public health and environmental laws. We have fought that at a state and community level for the past 15 years. There is a great deal of financial analysis of the industry and of how fracked gas is not a financially viable fuel. Due to how the industry has been allowed to operate in the United States, it has fracked so much that it does not have enough vehicles to get that gas out, in Pennsylvania in particular, and consequently, this company in particular wants to build this terminal. I am just speaking to the specifics of what is at hand, rather than to the entire fracked gas and energy industry, which would fill another meeting of the committee. There are much better experts than me.

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