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Planning and Development (Climate Emergency Measures) (Amendment) Bill 2023: First Stage (27 Jun 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...workers and ordinary farmers. It must be for the big corporations, the tech giants, the global rich and their profits too. The second thing this Bill provides for is a ban on any siting of liquified natural gas, LNG, terminals in the State. Incredibly, after three years of the Green Party being in government, we have the imminent threat of an LNG terminal being sited in either Cork or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...into a situation where that is unviable are important. Not only since the war in Ukraine but prior to that, I think there is a campaign in this country by certain vested interests to have LNG infrastructure, whether that be in Shannon or in Cork. We are now seeing that campaign continue in light of the new situation that is presented by the Ukraine war. I want to push back against that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Liquefied Natural Gas and Oil Prospecting: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...Energy Agency puts on the need to reduce fossil fuel use as against the energy security that was referred to? In its report, World Energy Outook 2022, the IEA stated that the rapid fall in LNG after 2030 in the net zero emissions scenario implies there will be "no further need for additional capacity beyond what exists or is under construction". We will hear about this issue from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...who goes where, and when and how? Is it a case that each port is competing with the others? That is not helpful for transport, emissions or our plan for the future. On liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminals, the Business Post recently reported that the port of Cork has signed heads of agreement with a US firm to explore the possibility of setting up a floating LNG facility in Cork...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Renewable Energy and Port Capacity: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Bríd Smith: And would the rest of the ports welcome LNG? Has there been discussions in Foynes or anywhere else?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...think the door is being held open. There is still creative ambiguity in the Minister's response. The Business Postreported last week that the Minister had conceded that Ireland needed to build an LNG terminal. This would be a reversal of a key policy of the Green Party because, as the Minister said, the world changed when the Nord Stream gas pipeline was blown up last year. Most people...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...that, but he needs to explicitly state what his intentions are. He may have said that the world has changed because of the war and so on, but apparently he also said Ireland may need to build an LNG terminal. Can he please clarify that and rule it out completely? Is he in a position to indicate that he will not reverse the policy of the Government or his party or the demand of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can clarify the position in respect of proposals to build a liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20127/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Minister has now twice made comments that have held the door open to the building of an LNG facility here in the State. I wish to give the Minister an opportunity to state quite clearly what his, the Government's and the Green Party's position concerning the building of an LNG facility. I ask this because this aspect begs another question of whether the Minister accepts the report of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (27 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: 84. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify reports on the Government support for LNG of some sort in the State and specifically how such a proposal is compatible with the State's climate obligations and targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19782/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Apr 2023)

Bríd Smith: ...than 9 million metric tonnes of CO2. He has auctioned off 73 million acres of water in the Gulf of Mexico for offshore oil and gas drilling and he has signed off on another liquified natural gas, LNG, project in Alaska. All of this comes at a time when he sings the praises of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, report, which tells us that we just cannot have new fossil...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: ..., he has any plans to seek to reduce the State’s methane emissions from dairy and beef herds or from the potential impact from the recently approved gas-fired emergency generators or any future LNG proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9968/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (15 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: 117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the Government supports the siting and building of LNG facilities in this State, specifically in Shannon and Cork in cases in which such facilities specify they will not use fracked gas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62709/22]

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...deliver and knowing all the time that the market is part of the problem. Some people, including in this House, may think that our energy crisis is due to lack of investment in liquid natural gas, LNG, or because we stopped drilling and exploring for oil and gas. Some people, like a junior Minister who has taken to social media and the airwaves to champion LNG as well as live cribs,...

Report of Committee of Selection: Motion: Departmental Offices (22 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...bob to compensate". We come home at the weekend to find a gloating tweet from the Minister of State, Deputy Patrick O'Donovan. He wants to show his support for building a liquefied natural gas, LNG, facility in this State. The Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Éamon Ryan, before going to COP27 sanctioned a licence extension for Europa Oil and Gas, which...

Energy Regulations: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...from the Rural Independent Group. It is refreshingly progressive and we will fully support it. The motion is unusual, coming from the quarter it does, in that it does not promote fossil fuels, LNG, Barryroe Offshore Energy or anything else. They are completely absent from it and I am delighted to see that because it is progressive. The motion calls for a reduction in the use of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Infrastructure (8 Nov 2022)

Bríd Smith: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has had any communication with the Port of Cork authorities in relation to their support for an LNG facility; if the authority is bound by Government policy in relation to the development of LNGs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55314/22]

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Bríd Smith: There is no threat to our gas supplies from Britain. Reliance on Britain would only be replaced by reliance on North American fracked gas or LNG from Qatar or another similar dictatorship. I am in favour of eliminating our reliance on British and North Sea gas. The quicker we do it the better but we should not replace it with reliance on a different source of oil or gas. The war in...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...at international market rates. In short, finding oil and gas anywhere will do nothing to address the crisis we face. I want to find out from the Deputies what they think about the fact that Shannon LNG paid more than €4 million to Kerry County Council. If the LNG fails will that money be returned to Shannon LNG? In the motion the Deputies make reference to domestic oil and gas...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Bríd Smith: New Fortress Energy has set up the Shannon LNG Limited company and paid Kerry County Council more than €4 million as a development contribution for widening the road to Tarbert, €2 million of which was paid even before the planning permission application was lodged. The question then is whether Kerry County Council now owes this money and whether it is liable to pay it back to...