"Green" policies are destroying this country

who did i deride for investing in triple glazing ? As i have pointed out to you numerous times i would love to but i dont have the money free at the moment. Life is in the way you know putting kids through college ( we do go to college in rural ireland ) , feeding/cloting/heating ourselves while at the same time paying extra tax to subsidise a heat pump installation in foxrock... i guess people like you think thats correct and fair.... . Are you sure your not eamon ryan as your view on rural ireland is quiet limited ? now i have to go off and chase a few newcomers to the village with a pitchfork

do you remember when the greens promoted the buying of new diesel cars with lower emissions and they change the tax bands. the whole of south dublin was driving around in brand new range rovers while paying 200 euro tax meanwhile the peasant down the country who couldnt afford a new car was paying up to a 1000 euro for a banger with the same engine size subsidizing the fella in the new range rover .. this retrofit reminds you of that .

Who is John Gibbons? He was on TV last night and on Claire Byrne on the radio this morning. Who funds his propaganda?

Is that before or after he bombs Kerry and the LNG terminal?

Really ? You may have missed that in Germany strategic coal reserves are to be created and the German energy network agency has asked for the country`s coal power plant to remain on standby,and have given the green light for drilling for gas in the North Sea. Meanwhile our numpties are attempting to ban LNG and pretending that Barryroe doesn`t exist.

Germany`s plan on renewable targets for 2030 went out the window with the war in Ukraine.

I don`t see where coal has been priced out of the market. Especially not for the major CO2 emitters. China has no notion of giving up coal, and neither does the U.S. who increased their output of coal last year. India either from their not signing COP26 until the wording was changed on coal. From just the proven reserves of coal all three have it`s not that great a surprise tbh.

Japan, another of the big 5 emitters made their views on coal very clear at COP26 when they refused to sign regardless of the wording. No surprise there either as they are opening 7 new large coal burning plants even though the are the worlds 3rd largest importer of coal.

Nuclear and natural gas are the future no matter what greens think about that.

They somehow appear to have missed that memo from the E.U. Or perhaps Eamon was having a little snooze when it came.

Just posting this reply to see how this discussion continues; also, can someone please tell me how to 'Follow' a thread? I haven't been on here in Y-E-A-R-S...

Bizarre some don't seem to have any issues with massive increases in tax to support renewables, but balk l at any suggestion that a nuclear power plant be built to help provide a reliable backup for those renewables.

As for objectors and not wanting one beside your house. If I remember correctly you've already said these type of people shouldn't be allowed to object to important energy related projects or wtte

Anyway it's not just nuclear nimbys

Some people apparently don't like wind farms next door either ...

Hillarious that.

Building a nuclear power station as backup to renewables is pretty much the dumbest idea ever proposed. Nuclear power stations are for base load, not backup, they run 24/7 except for when they are taken down for maintenance or to be refuelled (every 18 months or so) when they're down for more than 3 weeks straight and thats assuming that there are no issues discovered during the maintenance that would lead to longer downtime

Nuclear power stations require backup for these periods. What do we do in Ireland when we lose up to 50% of our base load for weeks on end every 18 months?

This is not a problem for the likes of France or the UK or US where a single Nuclear reactor is only a few percent of the overall generation capacity, so it can be managed easily, for Ireland, a single nuclear reactor could be 50% of our national baseload. So we would need to have an entire infrastructure constructed, sitting idle for 18 months at a time ready to jump into action to cover if that reactor goes down for either planned maintenance or a failure that requires the plant to shut down.

If you think electricity prices are high now....

Putting all your eggs in one basket is generally considered to be a bad thing

Ireland's strategy is to have a distributed network of smaller sizes generators as well as interconnectors and storage so that a single point of failure doesn't cripple the entire grid.

A small market like Ireland makes Nuclear unsuitable, it does not mean we should not include Nuclear in our grid, just that we can import that power through our interconnectors with countries where their scale allows for Nuclear as a distributed part of their grid.

You can point to irrelevant articles all you like.

It's not a case of either or. And as has been pointed out the EU have determined that natural gas and or nuclear are the two options for the period of transition to renewable energy generation

Did you read the article? You're the one giving out about Nimbys not wanting things built next door

Senator Garvey said that new wind farms should not be allowed until new Government guidelines* on wind energy are published. 

She stated: “There are a lot of people locally who don’t want it there

Re. Guidelines *And no doubt that would be the case with nuclear as well. That seems fairly reasonable to me!

Edit: the only party objecting actively to the Shannon LNG facility are the Greens surprisingly enough.

Leo Varadkar is on record saying the government won't object to the terminal if/when it gets planning permission.