"Green" policies are destroying this country

Do you not find the electric saw gutless? there's something satisfying about 130 decibels and the smell of 2stroke

The Greens in Germany shutting down nuclear power stations looks even more insane with the E.U. recognising nuclear as a transitional energy source.

Decades ago if we were taking warnings serious we probably should have been looking at nuclear.

With the alternative renewable energy source we have are unreliable. There is no quick radical fix for that . We are going to need a secure source of gas until that changes. What is so difficult to understand in that ?

We may be relatively wealthy but we are no Japan or the U.S. We have still got a cat hanging from the financial crash, a Covid epidemic to pay for and our state finances depend disproportionately on the corporation tax from a handful of companies.

Then unless they can point to viable alternative sources, they are as cuckoo as our Irish Greens who somehow believe we can go from where we are to 100% reliable renewables in one fell swoop.

So gas and nuclear can access E.U. funding until at least 2030 and 2040, yet our geniuses are attempting to ban LNG which the E.U. is in negotiations with the U.S. to bulk buy. A shower of ideological lunatics.

On the plus side we have 18 years to build a nuclear plant or two using E.U. funding.😎

Agreed. And I understand we’ve banned further oil/gas exploration in our waters/territory?

Yet we are reliant on gas and oil, and renewables can’t seem to replace them entirely.

We have indeed, but gold and silver exploration on land is no problem. How that can be squared with an operation that is far from environmentally friendly nobody knows except a few greens, Ryan especially who granted the licenses, but none of them are saying how.

Love a 2 stroke.

The electric chainsaw is really good, and I have a Husqvarna 455 Rancher for the felling and the big sections. Most of the work is done with the Makita, I have 4 batteries for it and they charge fast, its really light so you can go all day..

It`s even more important to remember that our situation is not much different from Germany. We have shut down, or were planning to shut down, every power generating plant other than those powered by gas and replace them with gas powered plants.Transition will only be achieved when we have 100% reliable renewables and that is not going to happen with our present renewable sources anytime soon no matter how much we ramp them up.

We are in the position that other than gas, we have not just any other transitional energy source, we do not have any alternative any more to use as a fill-in for unreliable renewables.

Regardless of how expensive LNG is, then we have no other options for a secure energy source that complies with E.U. directives. The Irish Green Party attempting to ban LNG and stonewalling Barryroe is insanity. If greens were really worried about the price of LNG other than their ideology, then they would be looking at the marginal pricing policy that the E.U. has now finally recognised as a cash cow for renewable energy supply companies.

We have predominately gone with wind as a renewable and gas as a back-up. As we have either shut down or downgraded every other generating source we do not have any alternative other than gas.

I`m curious Da, where in my posts did I give the impression that if someone was pissing down my neck I would believe it was rain ?

Do you seriously expect me, or anyone else, to believe that Neasa Hourigan, a Green Party T.D.s proposal of a bill to ban the importation of LNG is just her on a solo run that has nothing whatsoever to do with the Green Party ? Ryan has already attempted to put the fix in on planning permission for that private terminal which has already been turned down once, and with Hourigan`s bill, if it was passed, would ensure that if it fails again then no other application by anyone for a LNG terminal would even be considered for planning permission.

I would not be that sure from a post here not long ago that a state owned LNG terminal is still not a consideration for some in this government, and far as I recall the PfG agreement was in relation to fracked LNG. Not all forms of LNG.

Why should the government care if Barryroe is commercially viable or not as a reason to not give a licence ? The state would not be investing a red cent in Barryroe, so commercially viable or not it would makes no difference to the state. Far as I can see it`s more to do with the Green Party stonewalling being afraid that Barryroe is viable than anything else.

How did you manage to type with a straight face on Barryroe "Given the potential Environmental impact if done incorrectly by cowboys..." where Ryan has granted licences for gold and silver exploration to a sector that have shown over the years they are among the biggest environmental cowboys on the planet

Ah I see you now know all the investors in the Barryroe oil and gas exploration project as well? Well holy god there's something. You do know how investment in such projects work yes?

Why the fcuk would private investors hang around for long when you've the likes of Eamon Ryan deliberately stonewalling the project?

I reckon its time the company took Eamon to the cleaners

I suppose it's just as well there were no investors in the Derrybrien Wind farm closed down recently for environmental degradation and other issues.

Just us muggins picking up the tab yet again for another deluded policy given the thumbsup by our own greens which places these instalatiois in sensitive habitats and not next to the Urban areas where most greens in Ireland seem to congregate.