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A farmer wears his heart on his sleeve with a large antifracking sticker on his tractor.
"Guaranteed Fracking Free" Logo
Keep Ireland Fracking Free (KIFF) is a network of people in Ireland and abroad who believe that Ireland’s fracking-free status is something to be celebrated, protected, and widely promoted as a selling point for Ireland.
With the “Guaranteed Fracking Free” logo, launched on 7 March 2012, KIFF offers to Irish businesses, the general public, and the Irish Diaspora a visual means of expressing pride in Ireland as a fracking-free zone.
As KIFF spokesperson Charlie Williams explained, “We feel that Ireland’s status as a fracking-free zone is a real asset, in marketing as well as environmental terms. Ireland has traditionally benefited from its “green” image, especially in the agri-food and tourism sectors. We wanted to give Irish businesses an easy way of promoting the fact that, unlike many other countries, Ireland is completely fracking free.”
The logo, a green shamrock surrounded by the words “Guaranteed Fracking Free”, highlights the fact that hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is not at present permitted in Ireland. Therefore, consumers in Ireland and abroad can be confident that Irish food has been grown in a clean environment and is safe.
Similarly, tourists to Ireland can be assured of enjoying the unspoiled, green countryside for which Ireland is renowned.
The logo is offered free of charge for use by anyone who wishes to celebrate and promote Ireland’s present fracking-free status.
In particular, KIFF invites Irish agri-food and tourism businesses to adopt the logo for use in their product labels and promotional materials.0 -
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No Fracking Ireland Present a night with Greg Palast
Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Predators.
Bush Hotel
Carrick-on Shannon
8pm
Mon 2nd July 2012
"Doggedly independent, undaunted by power. Palast's stories bite, they're so relevant they threaten to alter history"
-Chicago Tribune
Palast is best known as the investigative reporter who uncovered how Katherine Harris purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida voters rolls in the 2000 Presidential Election.
Author of the New York Times and international bestsellers, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse, Palast is Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously held by Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde.
"A cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes" (Jim Hightower, The Nation), Greg Palast turned his skills to journalism after two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering. Palast's reports appear on BBC's Newsnight and in Britain's Guardian, Rolling Stone and Harper's.
Palast directed the US' government's largest racketeering case in history (that garnered a $4.3 billion jury award) and the investigation of the Exxon Valdez.
Palast is recipient of the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Prize for his BBC television documentary, Bush Family Fortunes.
With his most recent publication Vulture's Picnic - the New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either.
This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process-a story that spans the globe and decades.
For Vultures' Picnic Palast built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollywood thriller - a Swiss multilingual investigator, a punk journalist, and a gonzo cameraman-to reveal how environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, and lesser-known tragedies such as Tatitlek and Torrey Canyon are caused by corporate corruption, failed legislation, and, most interestingly, veiled connections between the financial industry and energy titans.
He is bringing his insights into the global hydrofracking rush to Ireland at the request of local anti-fracking campaigners. He, as a long term resident of New York, has had a front row seat in a conflict raging there between multinational oil and gas companies and a mass campaign who do not want the Marcellus Shale to be fracked.
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No Fracking Ireland Present a night with Greg Palast
Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Predators.
Bush Hotel
Carrick-on Shannon
8pm
Mon 2nd July 2012
"Doggedly independent, undaunted by power. Palast's stories bite, they're so relevant they threaten to alter history"
-Chicago Tribune
Palast is best known as the investigative reporter who uncovered how Katherine Harris purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida voters rolls in the 2000 Presidential Election.
Author of the New York Times and international bestsellers, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Armed Madhouse, Palast is Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously held by Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde.
"A cross between Sam Spade and Sherlock Holmes" (Jim Hightower, The Nation), Greg Palast turned his skills to journalism after two decades as a top investigator of corporate fraud and racketeering. Palast's reports appear on BBC's Newsnight and in Britain's Guardian, Rolling Stone and Harper's.
Palast directed the US' government's largest racketeering case in history (that garnered a $4.3 billion jury award) and the investigation of the Exxon Valdez.
Palast is recipient of the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Prize for his BBC television documentary, Bush Family Fortunes.
With his most recent publication Vulture's Picnic - the New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either.
This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed on the weak and ruin our planet in the process-a story that spans the globe and decades.
For Vultures' Picnic Palast built a team that reads like a casting call for a Hollywood thriller - a Swiss multilingual investigator, a punk journalist, and a gonzo cameraman-to reveal how environmental disasters like the Gulf oil spill, the Exxon Valdez, and lesser-known tragedies such as Tatitlek and Torrey Canyon are caused by corporate corruption, failed legislation, and, most interestingly, veiled connections between the financial industry and energy titans.
He is bringing his insights into the global hydrofracking rush to Ireland at the request of local anti-fracking campaigners. He, as a long term resident of New York, has had a front row seat in a conflict raging there between multinational oil and gas companies and a mass campaign who do not want the Marcellus Shale to be fracked.
Apparently, by all accounts Greg Palast Talk in Ireland Institute at 7.30 PM will be streamed (all going well) on http://www.ustream.tv/ch0 -
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Just to give you a clue. This is where Tamboran wants to extract 2.2 trillion cubic feet of shale gas in Ireland.
(Source)
And all without the use of chemicals.
Do you really believe that???0 -
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