Company insists €500m gas pipeline to go ahead

DESPITE reports that work on the building of a €500 million gas terminal on the Shannon Estuary has been delayed for at least a year, the company behind the project yesterday insisted it would go ahead.

Planning objections are among the reasons for pushing back the construction date of the Shannon LNG (liquid natural gas) project, near Tarbert, Co Kerry, according to an American trade magazine.

The starting date for the country’s first LNG terminal was to have been early this year, but it will now be 2010 or 2011, the Texas-based Industrial Info Resources reported.