High Court overturns plans for gas terminal in north Kerry

Planning permission should not have been extended without environmental assessment because special protection areas in the Shannon estuary where the terminal was to be built were extended since permission was first granted in 2008

Formal orders overturning An Bord Pleanála's extension of planning permission for the Shannon LNG controversial gas terminal have been made by the High Court. Picture: Stock image

Formal orders overturning An Bord Pleanála's extension of planning permission for the Shannon LNG controversial gas terminal have been made by the High Court.

Mr Justice Garrett Simons made the orders arising from a recent decision of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) on European law issues referred by him to that court in early 2019 in the challenge by Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) to the extension of permission.