Over one a half thousand people have had
their concerns against the new planning application
by Shannon LNG for a fracked gas import terminal at Tarbert, County
Kerry, formally lodged at An Bord Pleanála on the deadline
last Friday.
They were joined by 76 politicians - MEPs, Senators, TDs and
Councillors - including former Ireland-South MEP Kathy Sinnott and Sinn
Féin President, Mary Lou McDonald and all
the MEPS, TDs and Senators from People Before Profit, Labour,
Independents 4 Change, Right to Change and the Social Democrats.
The stakeholders wrote that they were strongly objecting to An Bord
Pleanála granting planning permission for the Shannon LNG/New
Fortress Energy LNG Import Terminal in Tarbert, County Kerry, on
planning, climate-mitigation, public health, environmental-protection
and human-rights grounds.
The final decision by An Bord Pleanála is due by March 7th,
2022.
On
May 18th, 2021, the Irish Government published
a policy statement
on the importation of fracked gas. The policy
statement
declared that “pending
the outcome of the review of the security of energy supply of
Ireland’s
electricity and natural gas systems, it would not be appropriate for
the
development of any LNG terminals in Ireland to be permitted or
proceeded with”.
The 1,545 stakeholders' names were gathered in a grassroots petition organised by 'Safety
Before LNG' which the group says it will keep open throughout the
planning process. The first planning application by Shannon LNG in 2007
was open for free for anybody to make a submission, but the
rules have since been restricted, forcing stakeholders to pay
€50 per submission via a printed submission posted or
hand-delivered to An Bord Pleanála's offices in Dublin.
View submissions to An Bord Pleanála on the Shannon
LNG planning application by clicking on the following links:
1. 'One Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-Five'
Objections to Shannon LNG
2. Communities for Environment First,
County Leitrim
3. Futureproof Clare
4. Friends of the Irish Environment
5. Not Here Not Anywhere
6. Just Transition Greens
7. Gluaiseacht
8. Kinvara Climate Action (the 107 signatures from KCA are not included)
Click here to view the full list of all the submissions made to An Bord Pleanála
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