61 people alone signed the 'Kilcolgan Residents Association' / 'Safety Before LNG' submission to An Bord Pleanala objecting on safety, environmental and strategic grounds to the proposed Shannon LNG project.
Many more people, including residents, locals, politicans and scientific experts objected individually as can be verified on the safetybeforelng.ie website and elsewhere.
It is therefore inaccurate, misleading and very strange of Senator O'Sullivan to state:
"An individual succeeded in holding it up single-handedly for 18 months but apart from that, it has the full support of all sections of the community".
The LNG project would benefit some people but is the price of up to an extra one million euros per week to be paid by consumers due to the stranding of the Interconnector acceptable? Minister Rabbitte himself acknowledged in the Dail on November 29th 2011 that:
"the prices for the consumer would go up and there would be a windfall gain for the multinationals" adding "that this is not the outcome we seek".
The pricing monopoly that would ensue is the issue that needs to be debated in the national interest. This is gone beyond finger pointing at one individual. The owners of Shannon LNG (Hess LNG) are based in the Cayman Islands. Why should anyone be bending over backwards to bring profit to a company from an offshore tax haven at the cost of higher gas prices for the ordinary Irish person? This is the real issue that needs to be debated as this project will bring only 50 long term jobs once it is built.
John McElligott (Safety Before LNG)
Posted on 10 Feb 2012 9:56 am
61 people alone signed the 'Kilcolgan Residents Association' / 'Safety Before LNG' submission to An Bord Pleanala objecting on safety, environmental and strategic grounds to the proposed Shannon LNG project.
Many more people, including residents, locals, politicans and scientific experts objected individually as can be verified on the safetybeforelng.ie website and elsewhere.
It is therefore inaccurate, misleading and very strange of Senator O'Sullivan to state:
"An individual succeeded in holding it up single-handedly for 18 months but apart from that, it has the full support of all sections of the community".
The LNG project would benefit some people but is the price of up to an extra one million euros per week to be paid by consumers due to the stranding of the Interconnector acceptable? Minister Rabbitte himself acknowledged in the Dail on November 29th 2011 that:
"the prices for the consumer would go up and there would be a windfall gain for the multinationals" adding "that this is not the outcome we seek".
The pricing monopoly that would ensue is the issue that needs to be debated in the national interest. This is gone beyond finger pointing at one individual. The owners of Shannon LNG (Hess LNG) are based in the Cayman Islands. Why should anyone be bending over backwards to bring profit to a company from an offshore tax haven at the cost of higher gas prices for the ordinary Irish person? This is the real issue that needs to be debated as this project will bring only 50 long term jobs once it is built.