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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: My recollection is that when we were examining this issue approximately ten years ago, the Department carried out a detailed geological survey of all the areas around the Shannon Estuary. We drew a blank. There is no suitable carbon storage site anywhere close to the Shannon Estuary. Is that a further reason this does not make sense from an economic perspective in this estuary?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am talking about looking for an appropriate place to store the carbon dioxide underground in the event of CCS being used. We would have to use an exhausted gas field or a salt deposit. No such geological formations exist close to the Shannon Estuary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: That would result in an argument about the use of LNG in Cork. I would be opposed to that as well. I was interested in the analysis that in the event of a gas shut-off from Norway, Russia or Algeria, we would have a ten-month security window. Was an analysis conducted on our own gas interconnectors with the UK? It has been proposed that reverse gas flows on the Moffat interconnector could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I understand the LNG terminal originally died a death because it did not make economic sense. The grid cost associated with the terminal made it uneconomic. I do not know whether this has been analysed. Perhaps Professor Howarth might have an analysis he can present in this respect. My understanding is that consideration is being given to the application of a new floating terminal, rather...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I will put a final question to Professor Howarth. Does he have any analysis on environmental concerns with this floating technology? Is it more economical or is it tried and tested?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am sorry but if we cannot do CCS, then, in the context of the Paris Agreement, it is dead in the water.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I do not have a question to ask. I wish to notify the Chairman and the committee that the Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment will host an International Grand Committee on Disinformation and Fake News on 7 November in the Seanad Chamber. The debate will be on how to get international collaboration in the regulation and governance of platforms and will also...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Has the Cabinet signed off on the marine spatial planning framework that was due to go before it? It is a critical planning framework that we need to develop offshore renewable energy, protect biodiversity and ensure our coastal arrangements will protect against the ever-increasing threat of extreme weather due to climate change. Could the Government indicate the position regarding the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Has it come to Cabinet?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment last met. [38503/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: 94. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider amending the mandate of Coillte to encourage it to provide a wide range of forestry services; and if he will direct Coillte to commence the planting of new forests. [41988/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: On that last point, how do we keep exploring for gas in 2050 when all the science says that we already have known reserves sufficient to blow the planet's climate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: The fundamental difference here is that the climate community says we have to stop exploring for gas everywhere. I do not think that one type of gas is better than another. Any additional gas is a problem in my mind. Mr. Murphy referred to English plans for CCS. I have been hearing about them for almost two decades. He said there was a plan for a demonstration project by the end of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: So the first commercial project might be in 2026 or 2027.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Murphy said earlier that we would not be making a decision on the Kinsale pipeline for the next few years, but his 2050 vision sees us introducing CCS in 2026 or 2027.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I presumed we would have a new combined-cycle gas plant in Cork with a carbon capture and storage, CCS, bolt-on facility. One has the pipeline structure there and one would run it straight out to Kinsale. Would that not be much cheaper than shipping it to Norway?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: If it is stored in Norway, to which country does the carbon credit attach?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Is the Cork pipeline made of steel?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: Mr. Murphy said it might be available for a certain number of years. It is 40 years old already. Do we have an estimate as to how long steel pipeline lasts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gas Networks Ireland's Vision 2050: Discussion (15 Oct 2019)

Eamon Ryan: I am not opposed to CCS in principle, and I am not trying to catch the witness out. I would just like to know the details. If the pipeline lasts another 20 years, we will not be using it for ten years at least, from what I have heard here. That would give it a ten-year lifespan. A power plant has a 30 year to 40 year lifespan.