"Green" policies are destroying this country

mad the environmental damage done to get those wind turbines installed.

ER sticking to his guns regarding not handing out new fossil fuel exploration licences- when asked about barryroe in particular. He also said all contractors get a thorough look over to see if existing applications would be handed out.

ER waiting on fossil fuel infrastructure report but doesn’t see any storage being built or kinsale being used as a storage cavern.

Question on LNG was asked but my stream broke up for a while- I only caught the end with ER saying something would cost tens of millions and take years to build- not sure if he was on about the terminal.

Dumping of nuclear waste at sea has been banned internationally for the past 30 years

i was disappointed no one asked ER if Russia hadn’t of invaded Ukraine would we be in this mess now?

Ryan was allowed blame the war, but in reality if we lost Moffat due to a technical reason and this coincided with low wind- we’d be in the same blackout mess.

Energy Independence (or have a variety of options) is crucial for any country, to be truly free!

An LNG port is essential if we are going to have alternatives to market fluctuations caused by a threat to the Russian gas supply. Having extra capacity, for emergencies, either solid fossil fuel or extra gas generators (easily to turn off and on) should be an obligation for the energy companies.

Fracking in as environmentally friendly a way as possible, in the north midlands and in the North, needs to be revisited, it is just virtue signalling if we buy gas from or through the UK which is fracked, and dont harvest our own gas from fracking. And explore more off-shore gas fields which must be more economically viable with the present prices.

If the government can not guarantee 100% gas and electricity supply, they can not ban you from harvesting turf!

Any mention of why they did not get planning permission or who objected ?

Be interesting to see if this outfit that has morphed from protecting Ireland`s natural and built heritage into full time green warriors on behalf of the green were involved, or that other limited company Friends of the Irish Environment. It would be comical if they were.

From what I heard it was to do with the Enviromental impact.

Gas is efficient since it is easily turned off and on able (as the ad said). Gas is needed to complement renewables, it can scale up when the wind is not blowing (or tide, etc is not producing enough). You can also use bio-mass. Carbon catching can be used to mitigate against pollution.

The gas infrastructure is there, and many homes depend on it, if the price goes through the roof, they will source solid fuels to burn and heat their homes much more environmentally unfriendly.

Exploit our natural resources of gas in the Atlantic and fracked gas. It is a false virtue if we are going to be importing 90% of our gas from the UK (Scotland) in a few years, bad for our balance of payments, and should Brexit trade wars happen we would be in the lurch.

All the Russian invasion has done is bought forward the time lines in which wide spread power outages would have happened. The plan is shut down Tarbert and Moneypoint, after 2025 there would be no turning back Corrib would be in decline, if you look at Eirgrids projections the reserve generating capacity would be reduced while demand management would be doubled. Imagine the Russians had waited until the end of the decade - what then? no reserve power generation, and complete dependency on gas from a single source, and the greatest demand ever on electricity generation. It you think inter-connectors and a super-grid would have come to the rescue, lets introduce energy nationalism to the equation.

This is 2022, this graph says future supply has hit a wall. The last time I saw a graph like this was back around the Chinese Olympics in 2008, when they accelerated production in advance of a shut-down and drove the demand for oil sky high. The price dropped afterwards due to demand destruction caused by the North Atlantic bust. This time round there is the possibility of a sovereign debt crisis in Europe on the back of this. It goes like this, significant parts of European industry shut down in the face of inflation and supply shortages, unemployment rises and taxes fall, balance of trade is out of kilter due to the energy prices. That demand destruction will bring down prices, but it also means an economic depression.

That's what anyone with a brain has been saying for the last year in here but a lot in here reckon the wind blows and the sun shines and were all in clover forever . Technology for green storage is years away and we will be totally reliant on gas etc until a proper solution is found. The problem is the greens will have us bankrupt by the time it's found

Where on here have you seen "this crew" saying it`s impossible to drop the marginal pricing policy. ?

If dropping the marginal pricing policy within the E.U. is going to be opposed, it`s going to be opposed by "the crew" you support.

Well if that is the plan, it`s not going well. They had 7.1% of the vote in 2020, they are now at 3% and will have problems holding seats they got in 2020 due to SF not running enough candidates as well.

I really haven`t heard the Greens saying much about housing, so on that basis it doesn`t seem like a vote gamechanger to me.

"You are referring to CCS? Yeah that's nothing more than snake oil unfortunately."

100% CCS with the Allam Cycle has been demonstrated, has put electricity on the grid, and is currently in planning for deployment at four 300 MW commercial plants in the US and UK.