Actor Mark Ruffalo has hit out at the Irish Green Party, this week weighing in on Irish politics. The Hollywood star has claimed the political party is ‘about to do something really terrible to the environment.’ In a social media post, the US activist called on the public to sign a petition which looked to reverse the actions of the Greens.
‘Hey, I need your help. You know, the Irish green party’s about to do something really terrible to the environment and our climate,’ the social post began. ‘They’re trying to jam through a bill to fast track building liquid natural gas terminals that would import fracked gas from the United States and I need you to help me tell the Irish people all about it.
‘They need to remove the LNG fast tracking and prioritisation as a strategic infrastructure from the Planning Bill and permanently just ban LNG. A post shared by Mark Ruffalo (@markruffalo) He continued; ‘What’s worse is that the Green Party, which promised the voters that they would stop the import of frack gas and LNG when they joined the Coalition Government in 2020 but since then, they’ve been opening the door for the Irish Government to build an LNG terminal in the Shannon estuary of all places.’ The actors comments come ahead of a Dáil debate on the Planning and Development Bill 2023.
This bill aims to reform Ireland’s planning system and allows for planning applications to be made for Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminals. Elsewhere, CEO of Friends of.
