Press Releases
- Paul Kenny's submission is
found to be "legally under-developed
and dependent on assumptions about regulatory control that may not hold"
in treating an FSRU "as a
controllable policy instrument" instead of "as a structural market intervention that
cannot be neatly constrained once built"
- prior confirmation with
the European Commission requested.
- Campaigners vow to resist "reckless and unnecessary' LNG import
terminal in Clare
- Minister Darragh O'Brien leaves it up to An Coimisiún Pleanála to
decide on the planning application for the privately-owned and
permanent Shannon LNG terminal, other than to confirm, once again, that
the Government already approved the development of a state-owned
temporary LNG terminal, as an interim measure, on March 4th, 2025
- Irish Regulator accused of not protecting
domestic customers whose electricity
bills are destined to increase each time more Large Energy Users such
as Data Centres are connected by a distortion of the Auction Capacity
Process.
Open letter rejects
Minister's claim that environmental groups agreed with proposed gas
terminal
- LNG
plans outdated within a mere 2 months by Revelation that Corrib Gas
fields are being extended, that Moffat Capacity is being increased by
42% and that Gas Networks Ireland is Eliminating all Single points of
failure in the twinned gas interconnectors
- IEN got an average of
€100,000 per meeting of the Environmental Law Implementation Group
(ELIG) over 12 years
- It is amazing to see how
a Green Party Minister for Energy can argue that the construction of
new Large-scale LNG fossil fuel infrastructure can bring more energy
security to Ireland. And what is worse is that the Irish householders
will
be expected to pay for it.
- Claims that the flow of over €27 million by
Shannon LNG into Irish state-controlled bodies during its planning
process put huge and inappropriate pressure on Irish planning
authorites
- Calls for the return of the site
to public ownership after it was
revealed that Shannon LNG controversially purchased the lands from the
state-owned Shannon Group for €25 million during the planning process
at a time when it was against government policy to permit any LNG
terminals to be proceeded with.
- Shannon LNG Pipeline
Expiry
Referred to An Bord Pleanála after it was discovered that Shannon LNG
only applied for a 10-year planning permission in 2008.
- With up to 10
times the emissions of pipeline gas, LNG would mean a higher proportion
of the Carbon Budget Choice would be used for the fracked gas industry
and that even more Irish cattle would have to be culled and food
production reduced at a time of pending world food shortages to
compensate.
- County
Development Plan compromised and tainted by payments which Fine Gael
Councillor Jim Finucane says were "good
faith contributions
made by a company that was committed to the area"
- Local
Environmental campaigners on the Shannon Estuary
feel completely deceived and betrayed by the Green Party who they now
consider as fake environmentalists
- Minister
Ryan is set to 'run
down the clock' and not order An Bord Pleanála to refuse planning
permission for the Shannon LNG fracked gas project.
- No
guidelines - only a notification - sent to An Bord Pleanála
because the policy is "not a policy of the Minister for Housing, Local
Government and Heritage".
- A "notification"
only obliges the planning authority to "have regard" to government
policy, whereas "guidelines" would oblige the planning authority to
"comply" with Government Policy.
- Chairman
Leddin of the Green Party now seen as the fracked gas industry champion
in Government. Minister Ryan also has questions to answer on how he
moved in the Dáil on the same today to prevent a fracked gas import ban
being amended to the Climate Bill
- New
Fracking Policy puts a duty on the Irish Government to now officially
agree to propose a
resolution at the United Nations calling for a global ban on fracking
-
Minister Ryan accused of bringing the Climate Bill into disrepute and
of having a conflict of Interest for failing to close loophole in the
re-drafting of the Climate Bill even though he was fully aware of the
court case arguments
-
Conclusion of legal process opens window for an Irish ban on the
importation of fracked gas as agreed in the Programme for Government.
- Proposed Removal by Minister Nichola Mallon of
Permitted
Development Rights (PDR) for gas
exploration a dangerous sleight of hand signalling to the Market that
Northern Ireland is open for gas exploration through planning
regulation of the petroleum and fracking industry before
any gas exploration policy decision is
made or any decision is taken on the current petroleum licensing
applications by the Northern Ireland Executive.
-
An Bord Pleanála has been hiding for over one year the fact that local
councils and multiple state agencies must process proposed floating
terminals, adding years to the planning-consent process since
fast-track planning only allowed for onshore terminals, not offshore
terminals.
- Loopholes must now be covered in any Programme for Goverment
- Updated
to include Press Ombudsman's decision of October 2020 ruling that Irish
Examiner article by Anne Lucey breached the principles of Truth,
Accuracy and Distinguishing Fact and Comment.
