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Claim that gas extraction is similar to feeding drug habit

Manx Green Party reacts to Professor Curran's comments

It's been claimed that the Government's proposals to facilitate gas and oil extraction from its territorial waters is similar to a drug dealer supplying customers.

The comparison has come from Lamara Craine, a spokesperson for the Manx Green Party.

This was after the comments of Professor James Curran, of the Government Climate Change Transformation team, that the proposed extraction was outside his remit:

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