People Before Profit Limerick
Data Centre expansion and LNG construction puts “climate targets impossibly out of reach.”
War in Ukraine being used as cover for expanding polluting industries at a time whne the IPCC has made it clear that we need to stop building fossil fuel infrastructure if we want to avoid climate collapse and human extinction. In an attempt to build local support New Fortress energy begins public lobbying campaign for an LNG terminal using selective quotes from experts and politicians.
Floating Data Centre a threat to Limerick’s electricity capacity
Nautilus floating data centre would use as much as one tenth of all electricity used in Limerick City. Ireland already has the highest capacity of data centres relative to our electricity grid worldwide, adding any more risks blackouts.
Limerick is quickly becoming the pollution capital of Ireland
The Shannon LNG planning application to build an LNG terminal, gas burning turbine and data-centre risks making Limerick and the Midwest Ireland's pollution capital, according to Limerick People Before Profit. The party has criticised the plans as “expanding climate damaging industries, at a time when the country has declared a climate emergency”