Energy

US energy firm offers Eamon Ryan use of Shannon LNG site for state storage facility

New Fortress Energy, which was refused planning permission to develop the site commercially, may now sue An Bord Pleanála over ruling

The developer behind the controversial Shannon LNG project has written to climate minister Eamon Ryan and offered the company’s site in north Kerry as a potential location for the state-owned floating gas storage facility the government plans to build.

Andrew Dete, managing director of New Fortress Energy, the US company behind the Shannon LNG project, wrote to Ryan suggesting his company could build a new state-of-the-art LNG terminal within 26 weeks at no cost to ...