"Green" policies are destroying this country

Already been detailed and debunked

Btw you still haven't answered the question asked.

Lol. I'll give it to you - you are a master of beating around the bush and being deliberately perverse.

Not my opinion. I've provided relevant sources to those points already. Something you might wish to employ btw.

As to my question. You still haven't answered it

"If natural gas is indeed recognised as an essential transition fuel - why would the greens here try to prevent the country using those resources"?

Here are the greens rubber stamping and gloating about putting an end to future use and exploration of all of our natural gas resources

https://web.archive.org/web/20210202155316/https://www.greenparty.ie/green-party-welcomes-immediate-ban-on-new-oil-and-natural-gas-exploration/

Here are greens trying to stop LNG imports using their mandate for government to railroad these changes.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/law-proposed-that-would-see-liquefied-natural-gas-terminals-banned-1.4806106

And laughably here you are trying to claim that natural gas is essential to a proper transition to a renewable energy policy.

With whats going on in Europe, Ireland faces being the last country looking down a very expensive and much reduced pipeline for the new gas generation stations which are planned to be built here.

The greens policy of stopping Ireland using its own resources and or importing a reliable source of LNG is simply the greens stamping their proverbial size 12 boots in the peoples of Irelands faces, because thats what it amounts to.

Edit: The irrelevant link you included for the new gas fired power plants here. I know this is going to be a bit of a shock for you. But these use gas - they don't produce it.

I have no doubt you do not get the irony, but I found it amusing that a supporter of a policy aimed at turning both our economy and countryside into wastelands, while expecting ordinary Joe and Josephine soaps to shell out eye watering amounts on retro fitting and heat pumps etc. is now lecturing on the economic viability of turf as an energy source.

The economic viability of any product is directly related to the price of similar competing products. Even if Irish greens cannot understand that the Finns do.

But then the world of Irish greens must be becoming evermore bewildering for even them. According to some the country that was held up as a shining example as to how this green agenda should be followed, Germany, is now nothing more than a place ran by Healy Rae`s due to them biting the bullet and expanding their terminals for the importation of LNG.

Has it not got through to you yet that the agenda has left us with a major energy problem that bad and all is it is would have been even worse if this had happened next year with Tatbert shut, or two years later with Moneypoint also gone. This agenda has left us with an overdependence on gas as a stopgap to fill the hole of wind generation. We saw where this was going to leave us last Winter if just one gas burning plant was off-line,.And that was after eight warnings in the prior few months that even then we had skirted very close to the line of supply filling demand.

Yet here we are, a looming shortage of natural gas worldwide, a Green Party and their supporters in denial, refusing to countenance LNG, turf, nuclear or any other source. Even to the extent of not wishing to know if we have natural gas deposits in our own territorial waters.

It`s the closest I have yet to see of the true meaning behind the quote " the lunatics have taken over the asylum"

Yet more nonsense. Nuclear power plants have been built in less time than that.

Who have you in mind to build a LNG facility where it would take that long, one man and his dog ?

The New Fortress Energy terminal would cost 500m, and in April 2021 their CEO was confident it could be constructed and on line by the second half of 2022.

Oil falling back, never actually past €2 up here anyway,expect it to level off at €1.70ish until the rebate ends, Pascal won't want it falling until then

I'm sorry but how difficult was it to understand a question pertaining to Irelands natural gas resources and future exploration for same?

But no matter. You also seem to be under the mistaken belief that all Irelands current supplies of gas are already "piped in" . News for you - that's incorrect.

Currently Ireland has three sources of gas supply: The Corrib gas field supplies around 60% of Ireland’s annual demand with further 35% imported from the UK and the remaining 5% coming from the Kinsale gas field.

Both the Corrib and Kinsale gas fields are known to have a limited lifespan. And when these natural gas resources run out in the near future - there will be no more Irish natural gas as the greens in their stupidity have decided that natural gas exploration for new gas fields in Ireland is finished, despite the fact that natural gas is designated as green energy source by the EU.

So our own natural gas resources will in effect remain locked away, whilst our greens tell us we should instead import natural gas from other countries - leaving Ireland at the mercy of an increasingly scarce and expensive natural resource in Europe.

The fact is that we need our own natural gas resources in order to stabilise the peaks and troughs of renewable energy generation. We cannot be completely dependent on other countries or the vagaries of war and market forces.

The greens in this country need a good kick up the arse if they they fail to understand those simple facts. Eitherway I reckon their time in government is limited.

What has all that to do with the fact you have now twice in the same day been caught our spoofing on the support for the greens agenda in Norway and how long it would take to construct a LNG terminal ?

you would not have a lng terminal up and running within 18 months, it would be years based on other similar projects in the western world because of the requirements and the build time.

to liquify and regassify lng brings an extra cost meaning it is less viable then just piping it, even with the current war and high prices.

we have a fair idea of what indiginous resources we have, realistically small pockets aren't going to be economically viable to extract unless the state decides to do it itself which is not going to happen, greens or no greens.

we can just about use nuclear from other countries because while it is expensive, the cost of importing another country's excess even with it's expensivity is nothing near the cost of building, operating and producing indiginous nuclear power which would bankrupt the state.

For someone who thought we got our natural gas "piped in" - you suddenly seem to have morphed into an expert on the subject of natural gas.

We currently use natural gas to generate a significant amount of our electricity requirements and to help stabilise the peaks and troughs of Renewable energy generation. It's not a case of one or the other. We need a constant, secure and price stable supply of natural gas alongside our renewable energy sources

Atm we have a decent proportion of Natural gas from Irish resources and we need to continue that. Otherwise we risk being subject to massive inflation of energy costs caused by escalating prices and demand in Europe and the possibility of shortages or no gas supplies from at all. If needs be a combination of indigenous offshore gas and LNG imports will offer a competitive supply scenario and address Ireland’s security of supply concerns.

We need a continuation of Irish natural gas resources. Not to have them locked away by a small number of eegits who think growing lettuces in window boxes will make a difference.