Energy

Taoiseach told by US billionaire that Shannon LNG venture is ‘shovel-ready’

Wesley Edens, the co-founder of New Fortress Energy, wrote to Micheál Martin last March to make a fresh pitch for the Shannon LNG terminal to go ahead

Wesley Edens, the co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team and co-founder of New Fortress Energy, wrote to the Taoiseach and other senior government ministers a month after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to make a fresh pitch for the Shannon LNG terminal to go ahead. Picture: Getty

The controversial Shannon liquefied natural gas development is “shovel ready” and could be a “fast-track solution to Ireland’s grave energy security position”, the chief executive of the US multinational behind the project told Micheál Martin in March this year.

Wesley Edens, the billionaire co-founder of New Fortress Energy, the US infrastructure giant, wrote to the Taoiseach and other senior government ministers a month after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to make a fresh pitch for the ...