"Green" policies are destroying this country

So last night on PT Marie Donnelly (chairperson of climate change advisory group) said we need our own source of energy and not to be dependent on imported energy.

She also acknowledged there would be a transition period to get to 100% renewable energy.

So that now the CRU, the climate change advisory group and anyone with a bit of common sense who has warned that we need our own energy supplies.

This at the same time that our minister for energy sits on his hands with the barryroe development and won’t allow further exploration of Irish waters to find gas that the CRU and climate change action group and the GP itself acknowledge we need until at least 2030 (more than likely 2050).

The only logical thing this can lead to is our complete dependence on a foreign country to keep the lights on post 2025, which the CRU and climate change advisory group is pointing out.

Surely our energy minister can’t ignore this anymore?

"The biggest issue at the moment is political parties rejected every housing project they can because it is not in their interest to have the housing problem resolved, it would be better for them if it got 100 times worse."

Do you have a source for that particular allegation?

The article I linked details quite a different problem to what you're claiming, relating to the fact that objections and judicial reviews by various interest groups "were “too frequent” and “holding up” many housing and infrastructure projects, referring to an “industry” built around legal objections to planning decisions."

Or are you suggesting that something labelled as a "green" objection is somehow automatically "valid" and everything else is invalid? Don't think it works like that tbh.

But yes the proposed changes do indeed seek to put an end to the "industry” built around legal objections to planning decisions by reducing "the stages at which a court review can be sought, place limits on the types of entities that can take legal challenges, and introduce new cost-capping arrangement"

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/obrien-backs-fine-gael-plans-to-overhaul-planning-process-as-greens-oppose-it-41306838.html

I’m no expert in hydro here, but some of the other posters will tell you we pretty much have hydro maxed out with what we have now in Ireland.

At a conference in Spain, the wind industry presents evidence that low wind prices are unsustainable and that taxpayers and electricity consumers need to step in and do more for them. What about all the "green jobs" the politicians promised for years now? The more random energy generators added to the grid, the more expensive electricity becomes. As a consequence the manufacturers of weather dependent generators can’t afford to build said generators in the EU, so the manufacturing moves to China where the energy comes from coal and it's cheap. It is the same reason solar cell production in the EU fell over 10 years ago because China could make the polysilicon raw materials and solar cells less expensively. Now is starting to hit the wind industry. Will politicians across Europe realise in time their green energy strategy is a de-industrialisation policy and by extension a demilitarisation one as well.

'We're all in trouble' | Wind turbine makers selling at a loss and in a 'self-destructive loop', bosses admit

When there is no wind how much of that 480GW works?, Authorities cannot expand those on the grid without having a backup supply therefore excess turbines can only be used for off grid applications that require electricity and can operate when the wind does, like their original purpose.

What's in the REPowerEU plan?

Just like magic they click their fingers and all this happens in 8 years. Se Action plan for implementing REPowerEU.

Atmospheric implications of increased hydrogen use. The risk posed by hydrogen in the stratosphere is the ozone layer is slow forming. Hydrogen reacts in a fast photochemical reaction with ozone even at low temperature, this removes the ozone layer and produces nano-particles of ice that will remain in the stratosphere. It's nothing to worry about . . .

The data in the report was based on a paper using data that's at least 15 years old. Since then Ireland has offered retrofits and warmer home schemes and insulation to people on low incomes. The BER ratings didn't even exist in 2007 when that study was done

All newer houses are much warmer than the houses built before 2007, and of the older houses, many of them have been upgraded to require less heating by having better insulation and more efficient heating systems

Any elderly person living in an old damp house has options available to them to make that house warmer without having to burn thousands of euros worth of fuel a year to heat the air outside their house

Yeah, thats why the greens are begging people to get their homes insulated and putting in schemes to help people to pay for warmer and more comfortable homes for the long term

Its the opposite. The fossil fuel companies want to see people living in shoddy cold damp houses that costs them half their disposable income to heat in the winter. Why do you love the fossil fuel companies so much?

Selective quotes and misrepresenting people, about as much as can be expected from someone who doesn't believe that CO2 is driving climate change

So you reckon that in reply to one post you get to tar and feather everyone who you disagree with this type of constantly repeated rubbish ?

"The keyboard warrior act on every post in this thread is confusing."

That you double down on that repeated name calling as called out - and go on yet another name calling round of abuse is quite hillarious and don't see the irony

"Similar to yourself a "hard" person from behind a computer screen."

I'll leave you at it lol.

The climate impact of free hydrogen in the atmosphere is less than 1% of the amount of CO2 offset by using Hydrogen instead of Fossil Fuels.