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- UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)
Eamon Scanlon: ...to water sources. Listening to witnesses from other countries, we learned of the environmental damage done to their areas. Just two years on, it appears the Government is going to improve the Shannon LNG terminal for the project of common interest list, and this is before the joint committee, on 9 October, has any chance to make its case. I am glad the Business Committee has agreed to...
- UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)
Paul Murphy: ...green jobs as well. It is not accidental that such a distinction is being made at a time when the Government wants to push ahead, without any democratic oversight and with public money, with a massive LNG terminal. What is involved in that is not just any gas, but fracked gas, which is significantly extra-dirty gas, with significantly more carbon. It also represents significant health...
- UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)
Joan Collins: ...serious concerns that the Shannon terminal will be used to import fracked gas from the US. It beggars belief that we ban fracked gas being taken out of our soil in Ireland but include the Shannon LNG project in a PCI which comes from the US, a climate change denier. It is important that the Minister comes back to the House with answers to our questions. Will he request a postponement of...
- UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)
Seán Sherlock: ...to be unlawful. It would be useful to have a clarification from the Minister on that. The second issue is one in respect of which we have received many emails in the past 24 hours, namely, the LNG terminal. The Minister will be aware that among the concerns raised in regard to the proposal to designate the construction of a liquefied natural gas terminal as an EU project of common...
- UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)
David Cullinane: ...and social damage it inflicts. Sinn Féin has consistently opposed fracking at every level. However, we now have a situation where the Government is pushing ahead with the liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal at Shannon. This project is going ahead despite much concern and opposition. Even before there has been a proper debate in the Dáil, we have a high-level committee in...