"Green" policies are destroying this country

But renewables by there nature are totally unreliable so we need our OWN backup and not be relying on anyone else. That is the crux of the matter.

I think we could be wasting our time debating with the wall here.

If angel can’t understand this and doesn’t know about the existing gas fields (not the first time this has been pointed out) then this is probably a waste of time 🤦‍♂️

"We spent 50 years searching in Ireland, nothing was found"

This is what I referred to as the issue with a unremitting stream of disinformation and misinformation being constantly posted by a few in this thread. What gives?

That idea has already been pointed out as being completely false

Natural gas exploration and finds since the 1970s. This has already been detailed many times.

"Todate gas exploration licenses have been awarded at the Kinsale Head, Ballycotton, Seven Heads and Corrib fields. From 1978 to 1995, Kinsale Head along with Ballycotton and Sevens Head, supplied all of Ireland's gas. Corrib field contributed the equivalent of 50% of Ireland's gas consumption. In addition the finding of the Barryroe oilfield of Ireland’s South Coast has the potential to provide the 120,000 barrels of oil a day that Ireland consumes, and a proportion of the gas needed to generate about 60 per cent of its electricity. Current licences for exploration are held by Equinor and Europa Oil & Gas."

This ruling will likely block any peat extraction to build windfarms as well.

It looks like @paddyisreal has a much better understanding of Brexit in relation to the present crisis with natural gas than you do.

Presently the E.U. is getting 40% of it`s natural gas needs from Russia. This supply is in danger of being cut off because of jingoistic nationalism on the part of Russia.

With no natural gas supply of our own, and no means to source or own supplies of LNG we would be entirely dependent on the Moffat pipeline for natural gas. All our natural gas supplies would be coming via a country that is not just a non E.U. member, but one who left the E.U. for jingoistic nationalist reasons where recently their present Home Secretary solution to Ireland accepting their solution to a disagreement on the Northern Ireland Protocol, an internationally binding agreement, was to to starve us into submission.

I mean, what could possibly go wrong with that arrangement.

You have continously posted misinformation that "nothing was found in the last 50 years" in relation to natural gas.

This despite the fact that large finds of natural gas have been found and even more finds of natural gas remain untapped off the south coast. And no it doesn't have to "provide long term". It's to provide a safe secure and reliable source of natural gas during the period of transition to renewable energy generation and beyond.

And yet you continue to deliberately try to claim otherwise. What gives? You've lost all credibility as a poster at this stage.

You posting "options"(?) is meaningless, especially where what you have posted has shown to be complete rubbish.

And the reason why the discussion is circling? Because of deliberate misinformation being posted again and again

Every post leading up to your reply was about providing a safe secure and reliable source of natural gas in the period of transition to renewable energy generation. That hasn't changed.

Nope. Corrib finishes in 2025.

I presume you would need exploration licences to look for what gas there may be, which the GP have banned of course.

Currently there is at least one major untapped oil and natural gas field available

Exploration in Ireland is undertaken by license. Companies undertake exploration based on a cost / value basis so where oil and gas prices are high internationally - exploration demands and value increase.

In addition the finding of the Barryroe oilfield of Ireland’s South Coast has the potential to provide the 120,000 barrels of oil a day that Ireland consumes, and a proportion of the gas needed to generate about 60 per cent of its electricity. Current licences for exploration are held by Equinor and Europa Oil & Gas.

Can equinor and europa carry out those exploration licences at the moment?

If they found something worth extracting could that then be blocked under green legislation?