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This Saturday November 12th at the Famine graveyard in Manorhamilton at 12 midday Love Leitrim are asking people to gather and join the call for global leaders .
Love Leitrim have expressed their worry about plans by Tànaiste Leo Varadkar to hold a meeting with the co-founder and Chief Executive of New Fortress En.
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Love Leitrim have joined other groups including Friends Of The Earth Ireland and Safety Before LNG in calling on the Irish government to urgently deliver their promised policy statement opposing the importation of fracked gas.
The policy statement was initially promised in the Programme For Government 9 months ago but up to this point the government has failed to deliver it. Ireland after a long community campaign banned fracking in 2017 and since then there have been calls to also ban the importation of fracked gas from impacted communities in places like the United States.
Fracked gas has a carbon footprint 44% greater that coal and the methane associated with fracked gas makes it 100 times more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of greenhouse gas emissions according to Professor Robert Howard of Cornell University.