"Green" policies are destroying this country

Nope. Incorrect.

It's not me saying the UK pipeline is NOT SECURE.

That is the Energy Regulator. Who said and let me quote to get that exact

"Ireland must build import terminals to ship and store gas because current gas supply arrangements from Britain are not secure"

Seriously what bizarre logic dictates that because the UK pipeline is not secure, that our Natural gas reserves shouldn't be used?

The only few here who have been throwing shite at Barryroe are oddly enough those who appear vehemently against Ireland using any of its own untapped natural gas reserves, of which Barryroe is just one. Surprise, surprise there. And the company responsible for Barryroe have not contracted a drilling company because they are not drilling atm! And that has been indeed explained to you many times at this stage! And yes unreliable renewables are a significant problem at this point in time.

As for this often repeated garbage

"Which from recollection has been answered multiple times already on the thread. But please continue to repeat the same post ad nauseam"

Why do you keep on repeating the exact same type of comments about the thread 'ad nauseum' as if any poster gets to control what is or is not discussed?

As to purported "answers"? First I didnt ask any questions in the comment you replied to. And your various comments to date have certainly not equated to "answers", rather they seem little more than bizarre commentary which apparently supports the idea amongst other things, that it's ok to burn imported coal (and apparently not pay carbon tax on it for personal use) as you have already detailed, but are against using the country's own lower carbon untapped natural gas resources to help support energy reserves during the period of transition to renewable energy generation?

Seriously What gives with that bizarre lack of logic?

Apparently we're not supposed to be talking about Barryroe because its been 'answered' previously. But no matter. 😁

So good news then that Mr Ryan appears to have finally been shamed into getting his finger out after all the bad press he's receiving?

As to your 'wondering' detailed above.

First Mr Ryan doing his job and giving the company the licence needed and the company detailing a date of 2023 for the penultimate phase of the project is not necessarily the same thing

Afaik it's already been detailed that the appraisal licence has to be awarded within a specific timeframe of the existing exploration licence

But if Mr Ryan accidentally managed to prevaricate for too long - that could mean that the application was out of time. So yeah in that sense the company are only too right to ask exactly what Mr Ryan was up to and remind him to do his job.

Secondly three months from now is October 2022 and that's into the winter months. From my limited knowledge of such matters, Appraisal work at sea tends not to be undertaken in Winter due to bad weather. So yeah 2023 seems about right considering Mr Ryan has wasted most of the year holding babies and talking shyte.

Finally If you don't mind I personally would be giving your investment 'advice' a very long and extended bypass.

Ah I see were back to issues with past, present and future. The company has no drilling company contracted atm because they're currently not drilling!

Past Providence has already undertaken test drilling - when they contracted a drilling company for that specific job. That part of the development was completed satisfactorily and test drilling operations completed

Present Providence are not currently actively drilling for oil as they do not a licence to do so (See Mr Ryan for details) and therefore have no requirement for / haven't engaged a drilling company

Future Providence (all things going well) will be drilling as part of their appraisal of the Barryvoe oil and gas field. The current prospective date for this will be in late Spring/Summer 2023. So once they get their go ahead and its all looking tickity boo at that point they will be engaging the services of a drilling company. 👍

And thats it. Fairly simple really.

I now you have been gone for a while, but were you not still on here when our own regulator said our current gas supply via Moffat was not only not secure but was in breach of an E.U. directive or did you just simply miss any posts in relation to that ?

The LCOE of New nuclear in the IEA report

is between about 60 and 100 dollars per MWh. Given that Ireland has zero nuclear industry and would have to build everything from scratch including creating all the regulatory frameworks and disposal and transport etc, in high cost economy where we can't even build a childrens hospital without paying 3-4 times the cost of everywhere else we'd definitely be paying the upper range of the cost of constructing a new nuclear facility. Also, the cost of decommissioning old nuclear power-stations are massively understated (in the UK, the costs of decommissioning 7 old nuclear power stations was estimated at £13bn in 2014 to £23.5bn in 2020 and still rising and the UK still doesn't have anywhere to store their spent fuel safely in the long term.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/20/uk-nuclear-power-stations-decommissioning-cost )

If Ireland was to have a nuclear plant, we'd need to build all of these hideously expensive facilities from scratch, or negotiate very expensive deals with other countries to use their facilities.

According to the UK, the LCOE of Offshore wind in 2025 will be about £57, falling to £47 5 years later in 2030

Using BESS to perform grid services that are currently being performed by gas turbines (balancing, voltage and frequency regulation) means that the capacity factor for the wind turbines goes up, as they are not required to be shut off to prevent spikes on the grid. Some of the costs of BESS implementation will be offset through increasing the efficiency of the grid and increasing the capacity factor of all renewable sources.

We will still need nuclear power in the European grid, which I have absolutely no objection to importing through interconnectors, but I just don't think there is any case for building a new nuclear power industry in Ireland. And the government agree, not just the greens, but FF, FG, Labour, and Sinn Fein all oppose Nuclear in Ireland for one reason or another, so unless you can find a political party who have anywhere on their platform a proposal to build a nuclear power station in Ireland and get them elected into government, it's not gonna happen

"Regarding Providence and APEC, the Chinese investors, the phrase "key financing conditions were not met" means APEC just didn't invest, simple as. Likely the same story with SpotOn."

Does it? Says who - Yourself?

So you don't know the details, therefore you're just going to make stuff up?

You previously claimed to have read all the online company documents and yet you apparently don't know that both Spot On and the Chinese lads were in breach of signed contract terms and conditions where "key financing conditions were not met"? Or that If you bothered to read your previous links you'd know that Irish oil and gas explorer Providence were the one to terminate the deals with these companies. And not as Broken earlier claimed that those companies had "pulled out"

And also not as you bizarrely speculate that "means (the other companies) just didn't invest, simple as. Likely the same story with Spot On."

Because that's you simply making stuff up. Like this 😅

"Honestly, my guess is these companies are waiting for it to go belly up, and they can just buy the rights in a fire sale, but thats just a guess."

Your comments about Providence are an absolute hoot DaCor aand really couldn't be anymore transparent even if they came in a large see-through plastic bag, where you've previously detailed that you're against all use of untapped natural gas resources here.

So the bottom line is it wouldn't matter if Providence were an A rated, good plated, award winning company - you'd still be making stuff up and "guessing".👍

Btw have you looked into the investment shenanigans of some of the wind farm developers yet or would that be a bit close to the bone as to how some "Green policies" are actually destroying the country as opposed to trying to throw shite at a company who hasn't? I'd "guess" not.

Just like those darn wind farms 😅

FYP btw

The same people on here saying wind power is the way would do the exact same, yeah I want wind power but I want it built at the other end of the country