Catherine Martin was responding to comments from actor Mark Ruffalo, who accused the party of trying to fast-track building LNG terminals
Catherine Martin has rejected actor Mark Ruffalo ’s claim the Green Party is breaking its election promises regarding the proposed Liquefied Natural Gas terminal in the Shannon Estuary .
The Arts Minister and former Green Party deputy leader was speaking after the Hollywood star accused her party of"trying to jam through a bill to fast-track building Liquid Natural Gas terminals".Advertisement"The Green Party have always been and remain vehemently opposed to the importation of fracked gas to a commercial facility - that is still our position," she said.
"The Irish Green Party’s about to do something really terrible to the environment and our climate," he said."They’re trying to jam through a bill to fast-track building Liquid Natural Gas terminals that would import fracked gas from the United States and I need you to help me tell the Irish people all about it.
"The Green Party, which promised the voters that they would stop the import of fracked gas and LNG when they joined the coalition government in 2020, but since then they've been opening the door for the Irish Government to build an LNG terminal in the Shannon Estuary of all places"."They need to remove the LNG fast tracking and prioritisation as a strategic infrastructure from the Planning Bill and permanently just ban LNG now," he said.
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