"Green" policies are destroying this country

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From the Independent

Environment and Transport Minister Eamon Ryan’s recent RTÉ interview raised eyebrows within his own department.

Mr Ryan complained about newspapers printing details of “dramatic scenarios”.

“We expect to be able to supply the power that this country needs in the next two to three months,” he said.

One source said the fact he did the interview in the first place was surprising.

“He wants to talk about renewables. He doesn’t want to talk about the risk to energy security that is unfolding as we speak.

“But his officials are certainly very concerned about energy security. They have a path worn to the Department of the Taoiseach

This is the problem with ideologues. In total denial publicly.

The public will need to watch very carefully to see what this proposed infrastructure to support renewables is about.

We cannot allow ourselves to be railroaded into Green Tech and Industry that could have deleterious effects on our landscape and environment.

The nimby manifesto.

Btw, landscapes change. Ask your grandmother.

We have a budget ? That is news to me.

I was always under the impression a budget was an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time. Seeing as we have a budget, what is the estimate expenditure of following the green policy of sorting our energy problems by throwing more renewables at it and and how long will that take ?

Ryan is the minister in charge and both the Eirgrid and the CRU report directly to him, so it was his responsibility to inform the cabinet and outline the methods he proposed to ensure blackouts do not happen. Other than adding more gas fired plants I have heard nothing else he proposed or nothing that the cabinet rejected, so to me the suggestion of it being otherwise is no more than an attempted pass the buck exercise.

Martin isn`t innocent. As I`m concerned he abdicated his responsibilities as Taoiseach by his personal agenda to not be the first leader of FF not to become Taoiseach and has allowed the greens carte blanche in the hope that his term would run smoothly so as to look good in the record books. That has now come back to bite him in the ass. So yes he has been complicit in this mess we now find ourselves in, but is he directly responsible, no. The real driver has been, through his actions and inaction, Minister Ryan and his party`s agenda. Collective cabinet responsibility does not mean the Taoiseach of the day is directly responsible for all Ministerial actions and inactions. That buck stops with the Minister in charge.

Yet another greenie who doesn't understand the tech basics or the central point. No wonder they all believe in hopium and magic beans.

Have a read

https://www.pipeline-journal.net/news/croatia-build-floating-lng-terminal-adriatic

None of that gets you to "carbon neutral". For a start it says "energy" when it means "electricity". Electricity was only 22% of our energy use in 2020. The only part of it that makes economic sense is number 2, using small-scale storage for peak shaving. Number 4 will make no difference due to Jevons Paradox, unless it's a euphemism for rationing. Number 3 does nothing for you on a becalmed winter evening unless it's diesel generators. Number 5 is Green hopium that's not coming in the next several decades and probably never. Number 1 is a very expensive way for an island nation to get access to a distributed market and is not going to get to a substantial fraction of needed capacity any time soon. All of them represent multiples of expense for the same capacity, and you still need them backed up by some other form of baseload power -- either fossil fuels or nuclear.

There's a reason this is all handwavey sh1te about "multiple pathways" and not an actual plan. There is no actual plan. We've been led up the garden path by ideologues who have no clue what they're doing with our most important infrastructural resource. It turns out that not only can they not show us a costed step-by-step plan to get us to their energy nirvana, but there was no plan in place for how we would maintain energy security at each stage. A generous interpretation is that they are incompetent idiots. The more sinister one is that they actually want the current systems to fail so they claim their crop of unreliables is no less unreliable than current sources. Of course, these are not mutually exclusive -- Eamon Ryan is showing all the hallmarks of being both sinister and an idiot, with his opposition to sensible energy security precautions.

No doubt Ryan is not single-handedly responsible for the mess we are in and we will be seeing a whole lot of finger-pointing in coming months. There is another source of these problems, though. Without a costed plan, nobody has any idea if the mandatory targets we have signed up to are remotely realistic. Personally I'm pretty sure they're not but nobody in the establishment is even trying to prove it one way or another. But because the targets are mandatory we have a green "fifth column" issuing legal challenges to anything that they argue is incompatible with the impossible goals that have been set. An Taisce and "Friends of the Irish Environment" are two highly litigious organisations who crop up everywhere and -- if you look at their personnel -- are heavily intertwined with each other and with government. An Taisce is a supposed NGO which somehow morphed from being Ireland's National Trust (a designation they still use) -- supposedly concerned with our built heritage -- to now having a mission statement that is exclusively about climate change. Ryan is more than happy for these groups to function as Green Party proxies in the courts.