Council confident Kerry’s €500m gas pipeline will go ahead

HOPES were voiced yesterday that there would be no further delays in going ahead with a €500 million natural gas-fired energy project in Tarbert, Co Kerry.

Members of Kerry County Council unanimously endorsed plans by Endesa Ireland Ltd to build an electricity generating plant on the site of an old ESB oil-fired plant on Tarbert Island.

Shannon Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has already been given the green light to lay a 26km pipeline which will connect the Endesa plant to the national gas grid, west of Foynes, Co Limerick. The pipeline will be bringing natural gas to Co Kerry for the first time.