People Before Profit Limerick
LNG terminal won't bring energy security, just higher prices.
People Before Profit joined activists from across the coutry at the Climate Camp, organized by Slí Eile, in Tarbert to lay out a strategy for the opposition to LNG imports which would encourage increased use of fossil fuels while delivering higher energy prices, damaging the planet and destroying the lives of workers and people living near the extraction sites.
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.
Decision on Shannon LNG deferred until September
The investors in Shannon LNG see it as a prospect that will pay out for 30 years or more. Instead of just delaying the project it should just be denied instead of locking us into using fossil fuels for decades.
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”