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Under the plans, seven underground caverns would be carved out of salt layers under the Lough by a method know as solution mining. The resulting hyper saline salt solution would then be discharged into the sea creating a 'dead zone'.
CAMPAIGN group No Gas Caverns and Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland are to appeal a decision to allow the construction of huge gas caverns under the seabed at Larne Lough.