The EPA is now considering enforcement action against the semi-State body. Image: Shutterstock/TheCourtyard The EPA is now considering enforcement action against the semi-State body. Image: Shutterstock/TheCourtyard THE ESB LEAKED thousands of kilogrammes of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere at a major River Shannon facility since 2013, but failed to inform the Environmental Protection Agency .
He’s due to tell TDs and senators that preliminary findings of the EPA investigation indicated management and control of SF6 at the Moneypoint site was “operationally rather than environmentally focused with sustained and prolonged leaks from equipment within the ESB Networks Compound”. Since the June site visit, the substation has been fully de-energised, with the ESB stating that since the station was shut down, the leakage of SF6 is no longer an issue.
The investigation into the management of SF6 gas is set to find that the Moneypoint site ”does not have a robust system for the management, labelling and storage of recovered SF6″.