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Members of a Strategic Policy Committee in Mayo County Council have been asked to do the research and appraise themselves fully of the potential consequences of supporting a proposed expansion of gas exploration in North Mayo, before making any final decision on the matter.

A UK gas and oil company this week lobbied a Strategic Policy Group in Mayo County Council to support its plans to drill a potential multimillion euro offshore gas field on a site 11km from the Bellanaboy Corrib terminal in North Mayo.

Natural gas flowed for the first time from the controversial Corrib Gas Field today (Wednesday, December 29). The project which has been dogged with controversy for many years received the final approvals it needed for the gas to flow from the Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources Alex White on Tuesday (December, 28) evening.