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PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

7 March 2012

“Guaranteed Fracking Free” Logo Campaign

Keep Ireland Fracking Free (KIFF) launches logo to celebrate Ireland’s fracking-free status

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. The Irish Diaspora in the US and elsewhere are also free to use the logo in their St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. The logo can be downloaded from http://frackingfreeireland.org and http://frackingfreeclare.org. The logo is available in a number of file formats for ease of use in product labels, letterheads, websites, buttons, T-shirts, banners, farm gate signs, etc. A version of the logo with the words “Keep Ireland Fracking Free” is also provided for those who may prefer it.

For further information, contact:Charlie Williams, KIFF spokespersongff.logo[at]gmail.com *Thanks to TM Printing in Ennis, Co. Clare for the logo design.

visit also: Fracking Matters Newsletter 24-12 (59) for the launch of our logo
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Frogs, farmers or frackers? Make up your mind!

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Welcome to all who wish to make up their mind on unconventional shale gas extraction, a method known as hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’.

Fracking Free Ireland is a comprehensive non-blog information and service site.

It provides information on local, national and international hydraulic fracturing related issues ranging from political issues, academic reports and research, media and press articles to local news and newsletters.
The newsletters provide an extensive round-up of the latest news. We also provide a service for those who are opposed to hydraulic fracturing by supplying downloadable posters, flyers and presentations, sample letters and links to petitions for signing.

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Made up your mind?
Do you feel that the frogs should be in, do you prefer Farming to Fracking? Ireland should be Guranteed Fracking Free for now and in the future?

Write a Letter to the Minister of Energy, Pat Rabbitte and call for a ban on fracking n Ireland and sign the petition.
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Keep the spirit high!
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ROSCOMMON COUNTY COUNCIL unanimously support a BAN ON FRACKING
LEITRIM COUNTY COUNCIL voted for a MORATORIUM ON FRACKING
NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY MEMBERS PASS MOTION CALLING FOR A FRACKING MORATORIUM the vote for a MORATORIUM 49 – 30!
CLARE COUNTY COUNCIL unanimously support a BAN ON FRACKING and unanimously voted to amend the county development plan
DONEGAL and SLIGO: BAN ON FRACKING ( 16-01-2012)
SLIGO BOROUGH COUNCIL supports the proposal from Clare County Council and Sligo County Council calling on the Government and the Minister for Communications, Energy and natural Resources to BAN the practice of fracking/hydraulic fracturing.

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COUNCIL AGREES NEW MOTION ON FRACKING

Posted on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at 11:25AM by Declan Bree

A MOTION proposing that Sligo County Council work with other local authorities from the region to oppose the practice of hydraulic fracturing/fracking was unanimosusly adopted at the monthly meeting of Sligo County Council.

Full article and More: http://frackingfreeireland.org/irish-press/
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THE FRACK-IN LOUGH ALLEN

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.
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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
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Subtract of a poem by Veronica Kelly (2-9-2011)
Read the full poem.

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COUNCIL AGREES NEW MOTION ON FRACKING