Plan to import gas through Cork harbour abandoned as port company severs ties with US firm

Environment Minister Eamon Ryan said he had been told a 2017 agreement to import liquified natural gas through Cork harbour had expired and would not be renewed

The site in the lower Cork harbour where the liquified natural gas terminal was to be located. File picture.

The Port of Cork has cut ties with a US firm which could have led to fracked gas being imported through, and stored in, Cork Harbour.

Environment Minister Eamon Ryan said he had been informed that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in 2017 between the Port of Cork company and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) development company in the US expired on December 31, 2020.