Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)
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Question 256: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if it is true that Shell intends to cold leak approximately 238,000 kg of methane gas in the Irish jurisdiction; if this is the case, if the Government has to pay the associated fine under the Kyoto Agreement; and the amount the fine will equate to. [11162/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government has no detailed information on the proposal referred to in the question. It is, however, probable that an installation proposing to emit this quantity of methane would be subject to integrated pollution and prevention control licensing by the Environmental Protection Agency. This licensing system is fully capable of having regard to necessary considerations of climate change policy.