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.