"Green" policies are destroying this country

If it was just a blind assertion then that could very well be true, but it wasn`t. It was made based on your post.

There was no need. Your post was self explanatory.

The lack of understanding of the world realities of the here and now rather than nothing to offer other than fingers crossed on a secure dependable reliable energy source.

That's just waffle. Do you genuinely think Irelands gas supply will be cut off?. If so, when and for how how long, and what would be the consequences of that?

Have you ever done an actual risk analysis on anything in your personal life or professional career

As a lot of countries have learned, (and other than our Green Party morons), have accepted is that with a shortage of natural gas due to the war in Ukraine there is no viable alternative other than LNG regardless of the price.

Even that former holy grail of Irish greens, Germany, have and are building LNG terminals, leasing floating LNG terminals and have placed 1.5 Billion Euro with their own energy supply brokers Trading Hub Europe to purchase LNG. The E.U. is in negotiations with the U.S. to bulk purchase LNG on the same basis for E.U states as the Covid vaccines which shows just how important they view LNG.

Irelands gas supply comes from the UK and Norway

The energy regulator mentioned the risk of a maritime incident severing the gas pipeline. As a professional risk assesor, this is what's known as a low probability high impact event. Its an event that is highly unlikely to happen in the short term, so we can get address this risk with medium to long term engineering solutions. Ireland's mitigation strategy is to build multiple interconnectors and increase renewable generation capacity and phase out the reliance on Gas.

If we can build interconnectors for the same or lower cost than a LNG terminal and those interconnectors can be constructed more quickly, then we should do that instead

Our interconnector to France will cost us about 250 million euros after EU funding. A 700mw lng terminal would cost at least 4 times that amount to build, and have significantly higher operating costs and lower end to end efficiency

Interconnectors also allow Ireland to sell energy when we have surplus supply. A LNG terminal would be one way only and increase our energy insecurity

lng comes from the same sources as natural gas, so if there is a shortage of natural gas and prices are high then i am afraid that is going to effect lng supplies.

by the way the US are only going to be able to supply some lng, not enough for the amount required, and therefore it is not a viable alternative regardless of price especially as there are much cheaper alternatives available that are a tiny fraction of the cost meaning the expensivity of lng doesn't make sense for ireland and would just be burning money.

not going to happen, it's over, renewables are what we are getting and no amount of whinging about the grenen party and calling them names will change the reality that this would have been happening eventually regardless of whether the greens are in government or not.

Ireland gets it`s gas from Norway, a EEA member via the U.K. which is now neither a E.U. or a EEA member. That is the reason that we are not in E.U. compliance on energy security. It has nothing to do with a ship rupturing a pipeline. If it had would it not mean we would also be in none compliance if a ship did similar to an interconnector from another E.U. or EEA member state ?

You are off again wishfully gazing into the future on renewable energy sources that have proven how unreliable they are to fill our needs, and interconnectors from Europe where Europe is ending it`s dependency of Russian gas that provides 40% of its energy requirements. Has it not occurred to you that there is a very high likelihood of little or nothing flowing through those interconnectors for years to come ? As a professional risk assessor it`s the very least you should be able to recognise.

Meanwhile in the real and present world other than one inhabited by unicorns, the E.U. are in negotiations to purchase LNG, as are Germany, and other E.U countries are building new LNG terminals, increasing the capacity of those they already have, and buying or leasing floating LNG terminals, while our Green Party and their supporters are attempting to ban LNG. Utter lunacy with not a single even vaguely credible alternative other than crossed fingers and hope. Not something I have seen advocated in any professional risk assessment manual.

I find it strange that your problem now with LNG is based on the vague cost efficiency of a terminal, yet you have no problem with the known efficiency of wind turbines where to provide 100% of our energy needs for long periods last winter and this Spring had we X16 times there number they would not have achieved that.

98 years of reserves if they just supply themselves, which given they are going to supply others as well means those reserves reduce hugely.

lng is not viable and secure due to the costs of it and the fact that conditions can change in america as we have saw with trump, another trump would absolutely use gas as a weapon, not to mention the other sources are a mix of despots and others that we would really want to keep on side but would prefer not to deal with ideally.

no the non-muppets in the green party realise the real world reality and are persueing a strategy that actually will deliver a viable and 100% secure energy supply.

barryroe is unviable, all attempts to extract have failed because there is very little there.

those are the facts, no amount of insulting the green party will change the facts as it has nothing to do with them as our strategy was always going to be persued.

Charlie, as a risk assesor, you surely must recognise the Uk not being in the EU is a negligent increase in the risk of them shutting off gas to Ireland.

We're in breach of the EU regulations as a technicality and the energy regulator herself said that the EU don't care and aren't pursuing us to resolve this immediately

We can regain compliance by following irelands renewable energy strategy using the Moffatt pipeline during the transition

Where are you getting all this information from, or is it just more wishful green thinking ?

Far as I can see not only is the E.U. recognising Nuclear as a transitional energy source, it has made no conditions on the timeline for nuclear plant closures.

No, but it appears the poster I was replying to does. But then what he appears to believe and the reality on a number of issues are far removed, so it`s not that easy to tell for sure

Do you mean you believe he is correct on his declarations on the level of the U.S known reserves of natural gas ?