SHANNON LNG has lodged its fresh application for a gas plant with An Bord Pleanála, in a planning case due to be decided by March of next year. That’s the decision date set out by the Appeals Board this week as it prepares to consider the viability of the application – having given Shannon LNG, backed by multinational giant New Fortress Energy, permission to apply for back in June. The €650-million project would see the construction of a gas plant and electricity-generating power station on the famous industrially-zoned Ballylongford Landbank in North Kerry. It addresses concerns the LNG plant would import controversial fracked gas from the US. “The Govt can easily condition the licence of such an LNG facility to exclude the importation of such gas...the majority of natural gas traded internationally is not fracked.”

Source: Irish Independent September 08, 2021 00:56 UTC