Actions Speak Louder
than Words across continents:
Canadian Scientist Jessica Ernst & Meg
Rybicki on Fracking Community
Criostoir Mac Cuirc on Shell To Sea
When: 11 March, 1pm (sharp!)
Where:
Hall E, Arts Block, NUIM
(#35 / 6B on http://www.nuim.ie/location/maps/CampusMapNorth.pdf)
Speakers:
Award
winning scientist, Jessica Ernst, a
55 year old Canadian scientist with 30 years oil and gas industry experience,
is suing the Alberta government, energy regulator - the Energy Resources
Conservation Board (ERCB), and EnCana for negligence and unlawful activities
related to hydraulic fracturing. The technology has become the subject of
serious government investigations throughout North America due to surface and
groundwater contamination.
Meg Rybicki is a member of the Northwest Network Against Fracking since June 2011 who’s
activities include awareness raising, campaigning, lobbying politicians and
councillors to ban fracking in Ireland.
Meg is very involved in organising music and arts events that
incorporate awareness raising on renewable energy, alternative energy and permaculture,
such as O.G.A.M festival and Feile Na Pobal in Tipperary. Meg is coordinating
Jessica’s speaking tour around Ireland and the UK.
Criostoir Mac Cuirc is a
member of Dublin Shell to Sea. A Dublin native Criostoir has been a
spokesperson for the group since 2011 and continues to be involved in many
aspects of the campaign. Dublin Shell to Sea was set up in 2005 to
support the struggle in Mayo against Shell and the Corrib Gas Project. The gas
project, directed by a consortium of companies led by Royal Dutch Shell, seeks
to bring unrefined gas ashore and to pump it 9km inland through an inhabited
area to a refinery located on a boggy hill.
Admission free- all welcome
