Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

Photo of Brian LeddinBrian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We still have the interconnectors with the UK and hopefully relations will remain friendly so that if required, we can rely on its reserves and will not need to build anything here.

We can rely on their reserves and then we do not need to build anything here. All members of this committee are clear that we do not want any new LNG infrastructure in Ireland. I note other news from the past 24 hours. The Shell oil company expects a doubling of the LNG market by 2040. Members can see where this is going. This is not a quick exit from fossil fuels. In many respects, we see them being locked in. I welcome the proposal to look at methane leakage outside the EU, because that is largely the problem with fracked gas. There is research to suggest that there is significant methane leakage from fracking operations, especially in North America, and that it has a substantial contributory effect to increasing global temperatures. It is important that we get this right. As Mr. Regan said, it is a world first. It is critical that we do not rely on fracked LNG, whatever about LNG from conventional sources.

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