"Green" policies are destroying this country

Yeah Germany is looking very foolish having shut down nuclear plants in favour of Putin`s gas, but at least they have recognised their mistakes and are now building LNG terminals, leasing others and exploring for oil and gas. They are even back to mining coal and are in negotiations with Columbia to purchase more. Here our green muppets, who for so long extolling us all too follow Germany, have banned exploration, are attempting to ban LNG and are keeping their fingers crossed our lack of energy security doesn`t blow up in their face along with E.U. fines for not being in compliance.

If any other country attempts what Belgium is attempting then a lot more will be interested. France in particular would be interesting. If people think Belgian farmers are militant wait until the see French farmers if they become p**sed off.

Putin may have inadvertently solved global warming

The idea behind extension leads is to buy surplus electricity from another jurisdiction when available and preferably cheaper that the domestic source. It's also an insurance policy that each jurisdiction uses to cover the fact they have been shutting down and dismantling reserve generation capacity they once had. What happens when there is no surplus generation capacity, because the old plant is not being maintained and shut down and every jurisdiction is blindly following the same policy at the behest of the EU and its army of lobbyists?

Here is how the interconnectors work on the continent, focus on Germany, when surplus power from random energy generation is available it has to dump it in the grid at a cheap price and the neighbours buy it up, however, during peak demand in the evening German consumers need reliable power generation and that comes at a premium from Poland and Switzerland and the German electricity consumer gets to pay the highest electricity prices in Europe. (We are 4th highest price)

The business plan for the enxtension lead to France, calls for surplus wind power generation in Ireland to be exported to France, except being unreliable wind generation cannot be be sold at a premium, it must be dumped at cheap rate. The turbine operators are not interested in making a loss, so who pays? We do.

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Good idea. That's one proven way to spread propaganda without any scrutiny

Calling interconnectors 'extension leads' is not even close to the most misleading misinformed nonsense contained in that single post

Large distributed networks containing multiple redundancies and rerouting paths are much more reliable than a single point of failure. The Internet for example is never 'down' while a LAN gets taken down by a tripped fuse

Does any green supporters here know the price difference for industry such as pharmaceuticals, bakeries, creameries, food production etc etc to change from gas to electricity?

The things we need to function day to day.

Anyone?

I won’t be holding my breath.

How many electricity interconnectors do you think we have ?

Far as I know we have one to the U.K., which for all the energy security it provides might as well be an extension lead, and one to France that only got planning permission 6 weeks ago and is at the very least, (based on green supporters estimated time for projects mentioned by others), 5 - 6 years before being operational.

That interconnector only got planning permission 6 weeks ago with a projected completion date of 2026. When a completion date for anything greens do not like is mentioned here it`s " blah blah blah...it will take years more than that" so why should green projected green completion times be always spot on. In that spirit I`ll stick with the 5 -6 years if it`s all the same to you. 😀

Not that it matters if it`s 4 years or 5 - 6 years. In the meantime we have just one interconnector which is as useful as an extension lead where energy security is concerned and one interconnector does not say much for your "Large distributed networks containing multiple redundancies and rerouting paths are much reliable than a single point of failure"

Weird reply.

"gas pipelines take years to plan before it gets near to construction."

We already have gas pipelines from the south coast. And there is gas offshore there too, covered by existing exploration licenses with people trying to develop them. Ryan's department took a year to approve a trivial seabed survey on one of them, a non-invasive sonar scan taking two days to complete. He really ought to be up front about his strategy -- he has decided the plebs can't be given any sniff of hydrocarbons in case they rebel against the hairshirt existence he has planned. Of course, that's not how he paints it, but that's where his cornucopian energy strategy is leading.

It is starting. What is in your pot will be more important than some worry about co2.

As farmers in The Netherlands continue their protests against government “green” initiatives that threaten to destroy agriculture and the food supply at large, they are now being joined by fellow farmers in Poland and Italy who face a similar plight under the heavy boot of government tyranny.

Reports indicate that protests sprouted up in both countries this week to similarly challenge government regulations that make it next to impossible to grow food and make a living, let alone keep one’s farm solvent under the heavy weight of so many insurmountable restrictions.

Ireland has had to practically give away the rights to gas in all its territories simply to get anyone to even investigate its viability. Almost all such explorations have subsequently discovered that Irish gas is economically unviable - ie it cost more to extract than you can sell it for. The rare exception was corrib, a field that has not benefited the Irish state since it is sold on the international market and we have zero rights to the gas it produces. Companies are simply not interested in developing gas in Ireland.

Gas is not viable in Ireland - whatever way you want to extract it.