"Green" policies are destroying this country

More likely to be a member of an NGO that receives taxpayer funds. Probably part of a mailing list that he uses to spam this thread with. John Gibbons is someone else. The major NGO that controls the discourse in Ireland is Climate Action Network Europe, this organisation is dominated by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and Oxfam. An Taisce, Trocaire and the local chapter of the multinational, Friends of the Earth are Irish based members of CAN. StopClimateChaos was founded by members of Trocaire and they were largely behind organising the school protests back in 2019. The geography department (Professor John Sweeney) in Maynooth is also linked with Trocaire. There are more NGOs operating under the umbrella of the Irish Environmental Network, this distributes taxpayer funds from Departments such as DECC, DFA & DCEDIY. It will not be surprising they use social media to influence outcomes.

One of the consequences of Climategate (December 2009) has been the growth of a technical skeptical blogosphere to challenge the notions of expertise being posited in the print and broadcast media. Most of the operators of these blogs are retired men and women from different backgrounds, it's not so easy to cancel them since they are in the departure lounge. Working professionals who take a skeptical line have to tread very carefully, the climate activists (e.g. John Gibbons) purposely target them when they deviate from the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) narrative.

Interesting comments by Ryan at the end of that article

“By keeping fossil fuels in the ground, we will incentivise the transition to renewable energy and put ourselves on a pathway to net zero by 2050.”

He doesn't care what havoc this causes to ordinary citizens once net zero can be met. He's a very very dangerous man IMO. The path to hell is laid with good intentions is pretty apt for Ryan and his ilk.

Yes, the Green agenda is to make renewables "competitive" by making the cost of fossils untenable. Ryan's response to the Dail on Barryroe has been to deny that it is even a discovery. He has also in recent times told the Dail and Senate that the world will burn to a cinder if we extract fossil fuels, and that Ireland's coastal cities will be uninhabitable by 2020. He's a maniac. I am not joking when I say that Greens are the current number one threat to human civilisation.

As somebody said earlier, you really are some tulip.

You claimed there is "documented requirements for all offshore developments" to show they are financially viable. You have used this as an excuse for Ryan holding up the issue of a permit to Barryroe and that he was correct to do so because Ryan didn`t believe they had the finances.

So.... you have either based this support for Ryan on the documentation indicating they didn`t, or you just came to the conclusion based on your own back of an envelope figures, So which one was it ?

The E.S.B. is majority owned by the State with appointments and remuneration of the Board determined by The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment. Disconcerting is it not that we have an E.S.B. plan where the offshore section will alone cost anything from €83 Bn. - €120 Bn. and there is no documented financial viability report that Ryan was so concerned over for Barryroe ?

But that should not prevent you on doing your analysis on the E.S.B. plan seeing as you had no problem doing it for Barryroe, so if not then why not. Because when it comes to projects they do not like as opposed to those they favor when it comes to finances greens are the ultimate hypocrites ?

Where was that 164c diesel on sale??

LOL. You really do just make it up as you go along.

The one and only reason for Barryroe`s troubles was the disgraceful behaviour of Ryan. Their present "trouble" that is sticking in your craw is the €40 Million investment by one of Ireland`s wealthiest men and the realisation that your hopes of Ryan using his office attempting to sink Barryroe are now dead.

I do not know what you know about Larry Goodman, but an ex-chief financial officer of Goodman`s is a former neighbour of mine.Now retired from a relatively early age and a wealthy man, so I can tell you for nothing, Larry Goodman does not finance gravy trains. He didn`t acquire his wealth by doing that. So as regards to you being 100% bang on the money I would tend to have more faith in Goodman`s judgement than yours if it`s all the same to you.

As to me being bang out of shape because you know that your back of an envelope exercise on the E.S.B. plan similar to your back of the envelope on Barryroe, it`s more a case of me bent over laughing at your running away from a plan where from even the little we do know that just the offshore construction costs would be in the €83 - €120 Billion range where a 12 year old could tell you without even having to use an envelope is so financially insane it is beyond laughable.

But I will certainly look forward to this "documented requirements for all offshore developments" on the financial viability of the E.S.B. plan. I assume we can expect it any day now from Ryan seeing it was such an important requirement for Barryroe when it was a matter of €0.00 rather than an E.S.B. plan that will cost consumers north of €150,000,000,000 just for the initial construction costs and production and storage of hydrogen.

If the price was reasonable greens would be over it like a rash rather than running for the hills whenever costs are mentioned.

"As always with greens when it comes to anything they do not like their first port of call is casting doubts on the financial viability, yet when it comes to any of their own preferences they cannot even answer the most simple of questions on finances."

This has the strong ring of truth about it. In the same way as for SF, it's a united Ireland at any cost, so with the Greens it's green tech utopia at any cost.