“We do not want these gas caverns, they pose a real and present danger to this community.'
That was the resounding message from over 200 people who took part in ‘Boots on the Beach’ at Browns Bay, Islandmagee to protest the project.
The developers’ own environmental impact assessments outline how it will create what campaigners fear will be a 100m dead zone on the sea bed, killing benthic fauna and sediment dwellers like sea anemones, sponges, corals, sea stars, sea urchins, worms, bivalves, crabs and more. The community is supported in their views by The Northern Ireland Marine Taskforce - a coalition of environmental NGOs, including RSPB NI, Ulster Wildlife, National Trust, WWF, Keep Northern Ireland Beautiful, the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group and Friends of the Earth - who advised against it over food web concerns.Alliance MLA Stewart Dickson joined the No Gas Caverns solidarity walk on Sunday, April 2.
No Gas Caverns spokesperson Julia O’Brien added: “There’s a great deal of people here. Lot’s of vibes, lot’s of excitement. Friends of the Earth campaigner, Declan Allison, said: “It’s a shocking proposal so we want to support the local people in their fight against it... to take a judicial review against the Department for Agriculture, the Environment and Rural Affairs who have approved a marine licence to discharge that toxic waste into the sea.“The case is up in May, so fingers crossed for that.”
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