Stop Industrial Mechanical Kelping In Bantry Bay

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The largest kelp harvesting operation is due to start in Bantry Bay. Industrial harvesting like this has never before been allowed in Ireland. The local community and environmental experts believe it will destroy the delicate marine habitat in a vast area and will have huge knock on effects on marine life, fishing industry, tourism and jobs in West Cork.

The local community were not consulted. There is still time to stop it as Eoghan Murphy, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government has yet to give final approval after studying the baseline research commissioned by the company Bio Atlantis.

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Dear Deputy Murphy
 
Congratulations on your appointment as Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. You will probably not yet be aware of the situation regarding the issuing of a licence to Bio Atlantis allowing them harvest 1,860 acres of native kelp in Bantry Bay, Cork - the equivalent of 38% of Killarney National Park.
 
The local community were not consulted about this decision. There is no evidence that the required ad was placed in a national paper and it now transpires that Bantry Garda Station never had the information about the proposed plans on public display. No members of the community in West Cork were aware of the plan and no Environmental Impact Assessment was carried out.
 
Before this operation can commence you have to give final approval on foot of being satisfied with Bio Atlantis - the company's own baseline research. I urge you to first meet with the community who are refusing to allow destruction of the local environment, tourism, marine and fishing industries in the area. 
 
Regards,

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