Taitu: Get On Board

We are the generation that ends oil.
Get on board - because when we stand together, we always win.

[watchfulrasputin]

We had Seismic Blasting conducted off of Ireland's west coast last Summer on an area of sea known as the Porcupine and this Blasting is to be repeated this coming Summer. Anecdotal reporting on the affects of this blasting tells us that movements of migratory fish stocks were most certainly impacted upon by the blasting as was the health and well-being of Whales, Sharks, Dolphin, Bluefin Tuna, Albacore Tuna and Swordfish. We believe that the female Prawn population on the Porcupine is in grave danger resulting from this blasting but unfortunately, trying to garner any interest in what is happening and about to be repeated this Summer appears beyond difficult and it appears to me that it will require the wiping out of the female breeding population of Prawn and/or the wiping out of any one or number of the migratory species I listed above before anyone decides that we should both protest and agitate against this form of Oil and Gas exploration Ireland's Licensing authorities in the Department of Natural Resources failed and continue to fail to conduct Environmental Impact Assessment and/or Habitats Directive Assessment on any one of the Seismic Blasting projects that have taken place and are due to take place. Blasting is now also licensed to take place this coming Summer in both the Porcupine AND the Celtic Sea, directly south of West County Cork. Any help or assistance that you in New Zealand can give to us here on Ireland's south-west coast will be greatly appreciated. Studies on the affects of Blasting on (particularly) migratory fish stocks, including those I listed earlier, and on Mackerel and Herring particularly breeding populations, will be very gratefully accepted.