Concerned citizens fear the country could be bound to decades of fracked gas imports if urgent action not taken
Fears are mounting that Ireland could be bound to decades of fracked gas imports if commercial LNG is not explicitly ruled by the government before its mandate ends.
“The court finding that effectively this policy position isn’t robust isn’t surprising to me and I would have supported those who said we should bring legislation to ban it.” “It doesn’t just fail to ban LNG or have a neutral position on LNG - very explicitly and very clearly fast tracks LNG. It gives LNG ‘priority’ as one of the forms of ‘strategic’ infrastructure for Ireland. The energy security review said we don’t need this.”
Fracking was banned in Ireland in 2016 because of concerns around the environmental damage it can cause. The Irish government also planned to ban fracked gas imports and stop the development of any LNG terminals that could see it imported from elsewhere. Minister Ryan said the decision that now needs to be made lies between faster electricity interconnection and energy storage “which will give us a better return than the FRSU option”.
“Half of our gas is used to create electricity and if we can’t get a storage facility until early in the next decade... the question is whether we can build better interconnection. Minister Ryan said the provision for LNG in the Planning Bill “is not unusual” even though we highlighted it doesn’t rule out commercial LNG.A Bill calling for LNG developments to be banned in Ireland is now going up for debate next week after Neasa Hourigan said it “got picked up from the Business Committee Lottery”.
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