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Shannon Protection Alliance The Shannon Protection Alliance was founded at a public meeting in Athlone on April 20th 2007 The central principal and immediate purpose of the organisation is to prevent the proposal of Dublin City Council to abstract in excess of 350 million litres of water on a daily basis from Lough Ree on the river Shannon, and to oppose any action that may be harmful to the well being of the river Shannon system. Since then,
the abstraction options have been considered and the current recommended
proposal is to abstract 350 million litres of water from Lough Derg
during flood period and store it in a water-based eco-park to be
developed by Bord na Móna at Garryhinch bog, (near Portarlington)
where the water will then be treated and pumped on to Dublin. It is worth noting that the combined population of all of the counties bordering the Shannon is well in excess of 1MILLION people! It is our pledge and ambition to maintain and intensify our campaign by all legitimate means, until both Dublin City Council and the Minister for the Environment confirm their abandonment of their potentially disastrous plans for the River Shannon. |
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