Taisce and landowners withdraw Corrib gas action

LEGAL actions brought by An Taisce and others over the manner in which consents were granted for the Corrib gas project have been settled and withdrawn at the High Court.

The settlement includes an agreement by the state to properly transpose aspects of the European environmental impact assessment directive by the end of this year.

Afterwards, An Taisce said the manner in which the project was consented to was “a travesty” of European environmental law and its legal case was about “breaking bad precedents”.