"Green" policies are destroying this country

true, but carbonisation of our environment is far more complex than just the wealthy, yes, a significant proportion of carbon is indeed coming from wealthy individuals but most is in fact coming from the activities of wealthy businesses and corporations, and we re not truly willing to appropriately tax those entities just yet, they also seem to be able to slither out of taxes due to globally structured tax avoidance schemes....

Increasing wind generation is not going to reduce the price of electricity by a red cent. Even if we doubled wind generating capacity overnight because it is unreliable.

Germany learned that lesson the hard way this year but are lucky enough to have coal deposits and nuclear that they can fall back on. We have neither, and even the one resource we had, turf burning plants, if it would not solve the problem in any major way, we have shutdown. We also have banned all exploration curtesy of the greens, Ryan is sitting on his hands on Barryroe and they are now attempting to ban LNG.

We followed the German template favoured by the Irish greens while they have shut us off, and are still attempting to shut us further off, from any possible indigenous sources. Even to the extent of banning exploration, attempting the same with LNG and using hand sitting. The country whose template we followed are having no such qualms.

If the Irish greens had been any way interested in pursuing a template that suited Ireland`s energy needs, rather than going on an ideological solo run, they would have favoured the French template. But then that would have meant them recognising nuclear, as the E.U. have now been forced to as a transition source, than now having the hypocritical stance that nuclear is fine as long as we get it through the back door.

Btw. I`m not sure Germany are self sufficient in coal. They imported around 40 million ton of hard coal last year, but that may due to them having shut their own source for hard coal. Which if they did, seems a bit counter-productive. Far as I know the primary coal they use for energy generation is lignite, which along with burning it not being environmentally friendly, neither is mining it, as this is often by strip mining.

They'll increase the price to make up for any losses to the energy companies, they've an insider as a regulator, has never refused an increase and never suggested saving within the companies before sticking in to the consumer.

Mad time to retrofit, prices are off the wall, State would need to bulk buy from the manufacturers and just pay labour at living wage to fit it . Most people will be long dead before any saving would be accrued.

Another way would be to retrofit every house free of charge no means test and then add € 10 a month to electricity bill.

Eh. Did you even read that link??? #3 on your list in Swansea was scrapped by the UK government as it made little financial sense and would have actually increased electricity costs for consumers. #4 in Scotland was massively scaled back due to cost and now has just 6MW capacity. And the one in Annapolis #5 was shut down in 2019 due to significant environmental damage and fish kills. Your link is kind of an own goal against tidal. 🤣😂

And the Shannon LNG is a terminal not a power plant. There are quite a few gas power plants in Ireland. Odd that you didn't know that.

12000 of those would require a very large hole in the ground for the mining materials needed but the greens never mention that

The standard of idiot they have in the green party is a special standard. Look at this lad, made a senator because hes catherine martins brother. This was nearly as bad as eamon and his lettuce.

https://www.newstalk.com/news/green-party-senator-makes-call-seanad-schools-rugby-final-played-1055030

i wish we could have a poll on this thread. "are green policies destroying this country?" yes. no.

that would settle this discussion.

im all for green solutions. isn't everyone actually? its just our luck we end up with the "green party" trying to provide them. they are an embarrasing disaster.

Amen to that !

What is equally Headwrecking,is the new crusade to make travel an anti-social occurence,the "Stay in your own Parish" message is now a regular,underwriting many mainstream media articles,in the same manner as Covid....(remember that ?)

Covid began the crusade against the Middle Class masses having affordable access to wide ranging unrestricted foreign travel,and this message is now subliminally implanted in many,already fearful people.

Is the chaos out in Collinstown due to the DAA's Covid strategy ?

Is it fcucxk....odd as it may seem,it looks increasingly like the major Airport Authorities getting on-message with making middle class travel as uncomfortable as possible,with some,as yet unknown sweetner lined up for the most compliant Authority.

Something is telling me,that much of this is about a madcap Clas War thing,with World Leaders becoming uncomfortable with the notion of the great-unwashed being able to jet off and fanny around foreign locations as they enjoy and perhaps learn from,the exotic locals.

Unrestricted travel was,in short becoming too great a threat to Worldwide stability,and thus,we see the moves to make it as expensive and annoying as possible.

Don't be too sure we won't have the Gardaí doing a rerun of the 2Km Lockdown cordon around the Airport again.

Just look at tonights RTE News page...crikey they (along with other compliant and seduced Western media ) are REALLY biggin-up the latest doom laden Climate report from the United Nations..

George Lee must have prayed long & hard that a Covid replacement would come along.....and boy did his God deliver the goods....

There ye have it,Antonio and George are never to be found far from a great Crisis....pays the bills,I suppose ?

Fair play to the U.N.,but they sure get through the oul reports.....pandemics or not 🤑

The confidence levels of the U.N.'s researchers has gone stratospheric,since they hit the Covid generated "Fear vein" still sadly rampant amongst the masses.

Think very hard about what deep and expensive changes this stuff is going to mean for the current generation of retiree's due to sit back and relax within the next 5 years......

Whilst all of these doom-laden reports are the meat & two veg of the Green (ish) European parties,which have had smooth rides to largely self-aggrandising coalition governance positions,we,de peeple are now left with a huge loomong issue of just how we are going to manage on our meagre (by Govt Ministerial standards.)

In one crazy way,it's only the likes of V.I Putin or Mr Xi who appear capable of giving the U.N a bit of a slap.

There's little hope of any of the "Usual Suspects" standing up for the small man...that's for sure 😡

Long time lurker but you really take the biscuit with your renewables are a waste of time schtick. Solar farms really don't require removal of hedges. Have you ever been involved in the planning and building of a solar farm at all? I think not because what you're saying is not the norm, and for the most part not true. It seems you'll say anything to keep us dependant on fossil fuels though. It's the likes of you, and your resistance to change who'll have us hopelessly reliant on fossil fuels with your silly but persuasive (to non experts) arguments.