In a new blow for US LNG in Europe, the High Court in Ireland has ruled to quash all development consents for the planned 5 Bcm/year Shannon LNG project. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now The court on Nov. 9 issued an order to environmentalist group Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) that quashed an extension awarded by planning authority An Bord Pleanala in 2018 of a 10-year planning approval first given in 2008. According to FIE, the court order means Shannon LNG and its US backer New Fortress Energy would now have to apply for new planning approval for the project. FIE argued that the extension of the period of […]

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