Fracking off the Irish coast is all about money (for the gas companies) just like the dams in the Amazon rainforest are all about money. Individuals on their own can do their bit to protest and be heard; when they get involved with other people to protest about these things it has more impact. There are serious concerns about fracking and all of us should be concerned about its impact.

Sinn Fein are right to be against fracking. This made me smile.

I found this article interesting and easy to follow.

Here's poem:

THE FRACK-IN LOUGH ALLEN by Veronica Kelly

Did you hear that in Leitrims Lough Allen
the frackers are planning on Fracking ?
you'll be woken from sleep as there drilling down deep
At the rock they'll be blasting and cracking.

The chemicals injected below
will be something that you may not know
it pollutes near and far with toxic like tar
with long term affects that will grow.

So read on for a while and just think
when you go to the tap for a drink
it'll come from Lough Allen where there's beautiful salmon
that are drowning in chemical sink.

Don't let foreigners call your bluff
cos their truck load of high fracking stuff
will be crowding your road with many a load
it'll be hard fracking noisy and rough.

To worsen the job seekers solution
will be money that brings in pollution
and in sickness and health we'll be seeing our wealth
go to waste in regret and confusion.

Don't heed the ongoing recession
or dwell on your future profession
be seen to protest in hivizable vest
and stop this hydraulic obsession.

Tis the truth and I'm not a scare monger
that the frackers won't wait any longer
to frack up the mass and suck out the gas
and pollute all our natural wonder.

And what will your kids have to say
when the place is too dirty to play ?
The cattle and sheep will be sick and so weak
and the tourists won't visit or stay.

We must tell the truth and not lie
when the next generation ask "Why
our beautiful salmon have gone from Lough Allen
who polluted our water supply ?"

So don't stand around in the queue
when there's something that you ought to do.
Let it be your good mission to protest and petition.
Don't leave it all down to the few.

Please act now before its too late
Cos we haven't much time left to wait.
while Leitrim is resting the frackers are testing
the well by your tidy town gate.