{"id":449709,"date":"2026-05-15T05:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449709\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T05:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T05:36:10","slug":"owners-blame-firms-financial-woes-on-campaigners-opposing-shannon-lng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/449709\/","title":{"rendered":"Owners blame firm\u2019s financial woes on campaigners opposing Shannon LNG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Company creditors of the New York-listed LNG operator are owed $6.5bn\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bulk tankers are used transport chilled LNG. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/38d699c4-6c4e-46a2-a7e5-b9982b115fdf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Bulk tankers are used transport chilled LNG. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">US-based New Fortress Energy (NFE) has cited opposition from environmental campaigners over the Shannon LNG plant as one of the reasons for its financial difficulties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Last week, a London High Court judge gave the green light for the LNG operator\u2019s creditors, owed $6.5bn, to convene meetings to vote on two interlinked restructuring plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Company creditors of the New York-listed LNG operator are owed $6.5bn Bulk tankers are used transport chilled LNG.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,246,61,60,5913],"class_list":["post-449709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sean-pollock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}