Pipeline risk to residents ‘insignificant’

THE promoters of a €500 million gas terminal on the Shannon estuary have given assurances about the safety of a 26km pipeline which will run across country from Tarbert, in Co Kerry, to Foynes, Co Limerick.

Pipeline risk to residents ‘insignificant’

Leon Bowdoin, engineering vice-president of Shannon LNG (liquefied natural gas), told an An Bord Pleanála hearing the pipeline was designed to the same standard as Bord Gáis pipelines.

Replying to concerns of people in north Kerry about the safety of pipeline, he described risks to people as “insignificant’.

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