Irish Examiner view: Ireland in need of gas storage

Energy independence

The worry is that if gas was to stop flowing into the Irish system from pipelines coming from Scotland and that in north Mayo, the country would be left bereft of supplies.

Ireland — and that means the island as a whole — is in dire need of gas storage facilities.

The war in Ukraine and the resultant massive hikes in energy costs worldwide have focused minds here on the complete absence of a gas storage resource which would greatly decrease our need — both north and south — to depend strictly on imports in a time of crisis.