425 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the proposed method to extract natural gas from the North-West Carboniferous Basin (details supplied) and the Clare Basin, namely, hydraulic fracturing or fracking, has been linked to widespread health problems, water pollution and environmental damage in numerous cases in the US, Canada and Australia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21990/11]

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425 Deputy Robert Dowds asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the proposed method to extract natural gas from the North-West Carboniferous Basin (details supplied) and the Clare Basin, namely, hydraulic fracturing or fracking, has been linked to widespread health problems, water pollution and environmental damage in numerous cases in the US, Canada and Australia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21990/11]

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