The Fermanagh/South Tyrone MLA who is Deputy Chair of the Assembly's Enterprise, Trade & Investment Committee and the party’s energy spokesperson said: "This report is the latest in a long list of narrow pieces of work carried out into fracking, which completely fails to look at the wider issues raised by those opposed to it.
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"It ignores concerns of widespread environmental damage, the impact on public health, the potential for water contamination all through causing earthquakes under the surface.
"Whether fracking causes earthquakes that can be felt on the surface is largely irrelevant. What is much more important is its potential to leak harmful poisons into our water supply.
"Without addressing all of the concerns that those of us opposed to fracking have, this report will play very little part in the debate that needs to happen on whether we allow fracking to take place in Ireland or not."
(CD/H)
