Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 October 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion
Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance)
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That is a form of wishful thinking. There is no evidence that technologies can create a carbon capturing storage.
The Bill does not deal with non-territorial emissions. Does that imply we can import emissions from abroad, in other words, liquified natural gas or LNG, which is not necessarily fracked? Does that still leave the door open for the importation of forms of LNG?