Clare County council decide to ban fracking operations in county development plan.

[jpc]

That is bloody mad!
There is a place in Pennsylvania called Centralia.
See what underground anthracite fires did to that place.

[former wesleyan]

I assume there are others who didn't/don't know what 'fracking' is. It's helpful in an OP when an unusual term is explained to get uneducated people like me interested. By someone else explaining it (rather than me looking it up) all my fellow ignoramuses would know what it means.

On an aside, I notice lately on P.ie that more and more posters are using wikipedia as a source.

Wikipedia is about as reliable as the Indo. It's not even acceptable as a source in Secondary schoo

l.

Snobbery if you ask me. Most assertions on Wiki are footnoted which allows you to see the primary source.

[Kev408]

The Pope would beg to differ with you on that.He is after all infallible and I defer to his servants wisdom.
Vatican uses Wikipedia to compile cardinals' biographies | World news | guardian.co.uk

The vatican, those supreme masters of f*cking up over and over again, use Wikipedia? I rest my case.

[Kev408]

Snobbery if you ask me. Most assertions on Wiki are footnoted which allows you to see the primary source.

Apparently 'most' doesn't cut it.

[Houyhnhnm]

That is bloody mad!
There is a place in Pennsylvania called Centralia.
See what underground anthracite fires did to that place.

(a) Fracking had absolutely nothing to do with that particular environmental disaster.
(b) There's no coal in Clare.

[harshreality]

Fracking is dirty dirty business and fair play to Clare county council.

[Toman13]

Sure there's proposed fracking in Leitrim(where I'm from) and Roscommon too, and both county councils did similar actions, but they don't mean sh*te until the Governmnet does something. And in all fairness, I don't see the point of poisoning our groundwater and destroying rural areas in the west just so a huge multinational makes a quick buck.

[mido]

The vatican, those supreme masters of f*cking up over and over again, use Wikipedia? I rest my case.

whatever about punctuation,your language dear boy is indicative of one lacking in common decency. As for the Vatican, fail they may have but they still have 2 billion adherents and the best art and buildings on the go. devil however still has the best tunes..

[mido]

Sure there's proposed fracking in Leitrim(where I'm from) and Roscommon too, and both county councils did similar actions, but they don't mean sh*te until the Governmnet does something. And in all fairness, I don't see the point of poisoning our groundwater and destroying rural areas in the west just so a huge multinational makes a quick buck.

there is little that fracking would do to make roscommon any more of a landfill than it that it is at present. Leitrim however, should be protected

[Toman13]

there is little that fracking would do to make roscommon any more of a landfill than it that it is at present. Leitrim however, should be protected

Jokes aside, I think you'd have another Corrib Gas protest in Leitrim/Roscommon if the government doesn't do something. And trust me, people here do not usually protest (They express their views privately or in a ballot box), so the fact that there would be protests should give you a clue as to how people here see things.