"Green" policies are destroying this country

Provide a link to an article stating that, which isn't paywalled. The article where that quote comes from seems to be about nimbys protesting against the terminal so the quoted line is probably some specious invented tripe hurled by someone of questionable character, intelligence and impartiality, but I can't tell for sure as the article is unavailable.

Try again, spoofer No. 2.

More complete and utter nonsense.

We need natural gas because wind energy is unreliable and all other power plants capable of filling that gap in demand versus supply have either been shut down or downgraded.

Bad and all as the present situation is, had it not occurred until next year Tarbert power plant would also have been closed and two year later Moneytpoint which with both shut would have left us totally reliant on even more natural gas to keep the lights on than we do now. People have been flagging this since long before this present crisis,, but the greens have just been burying their heads in the sand.

The "we control our own electricity pricing more" is an even bigger load of nonsense.

We are in the top four E.U countries with the most expensive electricity due to the moronic policy on pricing which has the most expensive component used in the generation process being priced as the total cost. This has resulted in all our electricity being charged as if it was all being produced using natural gas at the price of natural gas anytime it is used in the process regardless of the percentage used.

This is all pretty basic information at this stage that greens seem determined to ignore.

Why wouldn`t anyone not want to have the ability to control their own electricity, and where have you gotten this idea that by building our own LNG facilities we would not control them ?

wherever lng comes from, it is subject to the same pricing model that the markets impose, meaning it is subject to the same wholesale price, so even trying to source it in the quantities we need is going to be hugely difficult and expensive.

the reality is that renewables have been shown to be reliable, you need something like natural gas as a backup for the moment while we transition, and you will need backups for any and every source no matter how reliable hence ultimately a mix of renewables will be implemented playing to the strengths and weaknesses of each one which will ultimately implement an equalibrium.

we are already importing hugely expensive nuclear from frannce, more of that is likely what we will go for to make up the shortfall as dispite it's expensivity it is available more viabley at the moment, whereas lng on the other hand won't be viable at the moment due to ther wholesale price of natural gas.

because germany says they will have their lng terminal operational by 2024 doesn't mean they will, as all sorts of issues can plague big infrastructure projects causing delays, a motor way is not comparible to an lng terminal.

granting the licenses would cost money as there would need to be staff employed to examine the applications, no point if no real interest has been expressed.

we have cheap energy from renewables, it is gas that is causing the price rises.

a nuclear plant was never going to happen due to the disproportionate construction, maintenence, decommissioning costs and the prices to the consumer which would be required, which would be multiples of the current price for gas, not to mention the lifetime disproportionate subsidies that would be required.

just unviable and bad value for money hence hardly anyone investing in it anymore due to the low returns and high cost base but low efficiency and low reliability.

nuclear is only deemed the same as natural gas for those who already have existing plants, to keep those plants online for as long as possible, it's not for countries who don't have it to waste disproportionate amounts of money on such a bad value venture because there are cheaper sources available that are a fraction of the cost of nuclear, just not viable.

No tirade in any of that. Just simply pointing out your complete lack of knowledge on why we need natural gas due to wind power not being reliable, and how under the past and present policy of shutting down and degrading other power plants that has left us so dependable on gas. A policy that had this crisis arisen next year or two years later would have left us even deeper in the mire requiring even more natural gas than we do now to just keep the lights on.

Also simply pointing out that no, we do not have cheapest electricity because of renewables (where again you do not have the vaguest idea why,even though it has been pointed out here many times) but rather the 4th. most expensive in the E.U.

We build a LNG terminal, we source and pay for LNG to be delivered to said terminal, so who do you believe at that stage owns this LNG ?

Oh the earth will be grand. Humans and very many of the species unlucky enough to be stuck in our epoch, not so much (if we allow the worst to pass)

Again I have not even the vaguest idea what you are attempting to say, and from reading your post neither do you as it`s all over the place.

Best I can manage is you somehow got the idea that I believed that if we had our own nuclear plant, rather than use it as a primary source of energy supply, we would for some bizarre unknown reason switch it on and off randomly.

Looks like it's going to be growing oilseed rape to power bio-diesel generators,

And again we currently have a good supply of our own natural gas. Unfortunately those resources have a limited extraction window. And now the greens have effectively closed down any possibility of finding any new gas resources

The greens have done the same with all options for LNG imports as well

despite the fact we need a safe, secure and reliable source of natural gas to help stabilise supplies of renewable energy generation for the foreseable futute, especially in light of increasingly scarce supplies of gas in Europe.

And here, we now the greens are hanging us out to dry. Well done you greens