11 November 2021 Ireland has joined an international initiative to bring an end to oil and gas production today as the COP26 conference comes down to its final days in Glasgow. The Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance (BOGA), co-chaired by Costa Rica and Denmark, aims to curtail new licensing for Read more…
25 June 2021 Well – it’s been quite a news week for all things LNG-related. In case you missed it, it looks like the developers of the controversial Shannon LNG terminal are gearing up to again apply for planning permission. It raised a whole lot of questions – so we Read more…
14 January 2021 Plans to import fracked gas through the Port of Cork have been scrapped, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications confirmed today. In 2017, the Port of Cork and US gas company, NextDecade, signed a memorandum of understanding to import liquified natural gas (LNG) which expired Read more…
9 November 2020 Planning permission for the controversial Shannon LNG terminal has been quashed by the High Court. Following a twelve year-long battle, the High Court ruled today that new planning legislation is required for the extended permission of the Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminal, which lapsed in 2018. The Read more…
9 September 2020 A ruling from the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) today is set to have major implications for the proposed Shannon LNG terminal and other projects across the bloc. The judgment found that extending the expired permission for the controversial project requires a new permit for Read more…
30 July 2020 The government faces a crucial climate “litmus test” in its follow through on abandoning fracked gas terminals, climate campaigners say. The Programme for Government committed to withdrawing the controversial Shannon Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminal from the EU Projects of Common Interest (PCI) list in 2021 and Read more…
7 July 2020 The outlook of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminals is “tenuous” and “continues to worsen” in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and growing concern about the industry’s climate impact, new international analysis reveals. Following a worldwide survey of LNG terminals in May of this year, Global Energy Read more…
30 June 2020 The controversial Shannon LNG terminal faces its second challenge in the High Court today from an environmental group who alleges both Ireland and the EU failed to do the necessary climate assessments before putting it forward as a Project of Common Interest (PCI). In their second challenge Read more…
January 22nd, 2020 The European Parliament’s Energy Committee today voted down a motion to reject the EU’s list of priority energy projects that includes dozens of gas schemes critics say are incompatible with the bloc’s climate ambitions. Inclusion on the Projects of Commons Interest (PCI) list gives large-scale energy projects Read more…
October 22nd, 2019 The Government has confirmed that it will not change its position on supporting the Shannon LNG project for inclusion on the EU’s priority energy list despite growing pressure over the project’s links to fracking in the US. At the start of the month, the Government put the Read more…