Emergency Gas Storage in Ballycotton

Government “strategy” has shifted from no emergency gas storage to one week’s reserve. We need a lot more. The proposal to repurpose the depleted Ballycotton gas field into a large-scale underground natural gas storage facility offers that.

As we accept the inevitable reliance on gas in the near term, we need to reopen exploration of and extraction from our own natural gas fields instead of importing fracked gas. It’s far cleaner and offers security of supply