"Green" policies are destroying this country

That's exactly what they want.

"The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent" (George Orwell) - this is just another ideology that's being challenged.

That very much smells like a German "initiative" from the 1930`s.

I`m not overly surprised when you consider the Minister for Communications is Eamon Ryan.

If you take what Declan McLouglin said at face value, would that not also mean that politically the Irish Green Party could not be challenged as there would be "no actual alternative view". ?

Not that it matters as I would look on that type of utterance as nothing much more than desperation by greens, but it has all the characteristics of a slippy slope which it is never a great idea to consider going down.

If you take an area that was previously green field and cover it with impermeable surfaces such as roof, footpaths, roads etc. then rainwater run-off into rivers is greatly increased.

When an artificially swollen river meets a high tide then you are going to have flooding for low lying areas that previously didn`t flood because the rainwater released from that green field site was at a much slower rate over a greater length of time.

Call me an old cynic if you will, but that did cross my mind as a reason for what looks to be nothing more than a desperate attempt to avoid being challenged on their hopium dreams.

More climate rent seeking. The first thing to realise is that the more that people are scared of the future, the more insurance they will buy. As you might imagine, the insurance companies have been the allies of climate alarmists from day one. The big ones like Munich Re have been strongly pro-alarm since the early days. As have Swiss Re, and so has every insurer with half a brain. Climate alarmism is the insurer’s perfect selling pitch, people will have to insure against all the foretold dooms - they have to protect themselves from flood, fire, famine, drought, sea level, storms, insect-borne diseases, and all of the themageddon scenarios that were supposed to appear over a decade ago (still waiting).

Here is what Warren Buffet had to say.

Climate rent seeking. They are not even trying to hide it, the useful climate idiots jamming traffic annoy the public, The British establishment make out like bandits.

Baroness Brown to step down from CCC Mitigation Committee

Property market faces energy-efficiency ticking timebomb: Two-thirds of UK homes will be unsellable by 2028 unless they insulate

Tory peer’s firm is paid £500,000 from energy companies set to profit from fossil fuel boiler ban HE helped push through

Where in any of that does it negate that even with the very highly unlikely scenario that we would end up with the same average strike price as the U.K. for this 30 gigawatts offshore plan, that even with Hinkley, "The dreadful deal behind the worlds most expensive power plant" nuclear for the consumer would not be cheaper ?

The cost of nuclear compared to Hinkley is not becoming more expensive. You have only to look at the three bid offers for Poland`s nuclear plants to see that, and the days of economy of scale lowering the price for turbines are long gone. That is also obvious from the recent reported losses from Siemens, Vesta and especially General Motors where they are looking at $2 Billion in losses from their renewables unit this year.

You may need to read what I actually said. I didn`t, nor did I need need to suggest that 50% of the electricity generated would be used for hydrogen, for the simple reason it is what the ESB plan says, and that means that the consumer would be paying strike price of double the U.K. @ £96. (€112), and that is without all the extra costs of hydrogen on top.

Under the ESB plan the totally unknown costs for hydrogen construction, production, storage and distribution would be borne by the consumer which would bring the actual strike price for consumers well beyond £96 (€112) and thus well beyond the strike price of even "The dreadful deal behind the worlds most expensive power plant"

Why are you worried about the balance sheets of EDF, Westinghouse or even KHNP. Similar to a wind or solar energy company when any of them sign a contract, any financial over-run is their responsibility. But if you are really worried then Westinghouse would be the one to go with. They were not the cheapest bid for the Poland contracts but still won, and from the enthusiastic congratulations from senior members of the U.S. government to the Polish government, it looks like they were heavily involved in swinging that contract Westinghouse`s way.

LOL, should we invade a few countries while we are at it?

We should deffo leave the EU, from what I can see its only positives!

What makes it even more strange, in the past 12 months there has been new articles stating the the environmental impact of different things have been over-estimated, very recently there was an article that methane levels from livestock is actually lower than previously stated, but I do remember a couple of people on Tonight Show making points about methane and they challenged the position of the Greens and the Government agency's ...so now they would be silenced even tho they were correct