The Green Party has been called on to keep its promise to oppose fracked gas after the High Court ruled in favour of the Shannon Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) project.

In a judgment issued in late September, Mr Justice Richard Humphreys quashed An Bord Pleanála’s decision to refuse permission for the project.

The High Court judge said he proposed to order the board to reconsider the planning application in line with his findings.

Shannon LNG had sought permission for a power plant, battery energy storage system and a regasification unit on a 630-acre site between Tarbert and Ballylongford on the Shannon Estuary.

Friends of the Earth has called on supporters to contact Green Party members to remind them of a Government  agreed policy statement in 2021 against the importation of fracked gas.

As fracked gas would be imported in the form of LNG, the policy declared “it would not be appropriate for the development of any LNG terminals in Ireland to be permitted”, pending the outcome of the Government’s energy security review, Friends of the Earth notes.

“This policy was repeatedly described by Minister Eamon Ryan as a moratorium on LNG and we welcomed it as such,”it says.

The NGO has called on the Green Party to “ take immediate policy steps to reject Shannon LNG and frack gas and reassert the imperative of breaking Ireland’s dependence on fossil fuels”.