"Green" policies are destroying this country

You are talking about gas. I am talking about gas transit. Two different things. There may be a shortage of gas at certain times but there is an abundance of transit. The U.K. government doesn’t even own the GB transmission system. They have no right to put strictures on National Grid transporting gas to Ireland (unless they put the country on a war footing).

anyway, good that you acknowledge that the only real reason for building an LNG terminal here is the extremely unlikely possibility that Britain might want to have an unwinnable trade war.

What do you think happened there? That was a negotiated commercial contract. It was not ‘the stroke of a pen’. If the UK goes around commandeering private industry out of spite the London Stock Exchange won’t last long and government bonds will collapse. That’s apart from getting sanctioned.

These are brexiteer fantasies. They bear no relation to real life.

But if this really were a realistic possibility then yes, there would be a strong case for an FSRU (along with a couple of frigates and submarines to defend it).

No, but the absence of people and vehicles to transport it does, do keep up.

Congratulations to Finland who have just this week commissioned Europe's largest pressurised water reactor and now produce over 30% of that nation's energy from a single atomic power site, insulating itself further from Russian interference in the cross border energy market.

Also, the G7 has recommitted itself to divesting from fossil fuels, just without any deadline, so happy 2150 to everyone 😂

The reason for building an LNG facility here are the same reasons that the Chairperson of CRU gave. If you believe she is lying or misinformed then take it up with her. Personally I would be more inclined to believe her than some randomeer on the internet that believe a more secure supply of LNG is to buy our own tanker loads, send them to Germany for their LNG terminals to return them to their gaseous state and then pump it by pipeline over land and sea all the way to Moffat in Scotland to be then sent by pipeline to Ireland. Especially where Corrib is now supplying just 30% of our requirements and that percentage to drop to insignificance within the next 3 -4 years.

Not only is the U.K. no longer a member of the E.U. and thus no longer part of the E.U. agreement on Security of Supply, it does not even have an agreement with Germany on reciplocal gas supply let alone an agreement to pump this gas of yours to Ireland. When this was pointed out to you, your solution then became shipping the gas from Germany in its reconstituted gaseous state to Ireland by tanker. A solution that would require 600 tankers for every LNG tanker sent to Germany terminals!

Your other solution was reconstitued gas from U.K. LNG terminals pumped by pipeline here. Far as I recall I have asked you why would Germany or the U.K. supply us with LNG when there is no onus or compulsion on them to do so. Out of the goodness of their hearts ?

Or why would this LNG be acceptable to the Irish Green Party, who have been the botleneck here as regards both a national and private LNG terminals supplying the same. Because like electrcity, these magical interconnectors somehow remove the nuclear generated electricity and the fracked LNG gas in thansit ?

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Btw perhaps you could concentrate on answering what you are asked rather than smart aleck comments. Nobody is going to have a trade war with the U.K. for telling us when we come cap in hand looking for LNG that they have none to spare, where we have not only refuse to build our own terminal, but didn`t even apply for available E.U. funding to do so.

@antoinolachtnai

The UK has huge LNG import capacity, but its storage capacity is only about a week's worth.

Of course the gas will flow but at what price? It will have to be significantly above what the UK domestic market will pay for the gas.

Then they will have to export less gas to Belgium because Belgium has access to Northern European LNG. More gas will be available in Britain as a result. This gas is then available to export to Ireland.

The continental, British and Irish markets are linked together. You don’t have to ship a molecule of gas all the way from North Germany to Ireland for Ireland to benefit both economically and from an energy security perspective from greater overall import capacity in Western Europe.

If we had an LNG terminal and we got stuck do you think we would have automatic guaranteed access to tanker loads of gas? Unless we had a load of long term contracts we would be going cap in hand as you call it to get supplies.

Irish gas shippers and consumers have the same access to buy resources like gas in the EU market as the Germans or Belgians have. That’s what the Single Market is. That’s the whole point of the European Union.

It's tangentially related. We are going to burden bill payers with ever increasing bills for something that won't be used all the time (or more than 30/35% of the time).

Now we are talking about price rather than security of supply

Irish retailers will buy the gas at the UK balancing point for the same price that British retailers and generators buy it and pay the freight to ship it to Moffat and across the interconnector? This is how it has worked for decades and will continue to work.

March 2022 the E.U. and the U.S. reached an agreement that not only would the U.S. continuing to supply 15 Billion cubic meters of LNG annually, but additional supply of up to 50 Billion cubic meters per annum up until at least 2030.

From a joint E.U. and U.S, statement 25 March 2022. "The European Commission will work with E.U Member States towards ensuring stable demand for additional U.S. LNG until at least 2030 of approximately 50 bcm/annum........." It goes on to mention price going forward and the E.U. financially aiding member States on LNG terminals and storage etc.

Basically the same type of arrangement that the E.U. negotiated on behalf of its member states for Covid vaccines where each country was allocated a percentage of the total based on their population size. That entitled us to just over 1.1% of the total. If we were interested in being part of this arrangement, then I don`t see why we would not be entitled to at least the same percentage at the bulk price agreed by the E.U. as we are one of the highest gas dependency States in the E.U.By doing so there would be no need to go cap in hand begging anyone or having to go negotiating long term contracts for relatively small amounts of LNG that would see us at the end of a very long queue.

But then we would need an LNG terminal to avail of that. Something the Irish Green Party is blocking. Not just for a nationally owned LNG terminal with no application for that E.U. aid to build one, but are also attempting to prevent private companies building LNG terminals as well.

You mean cold training of our people when they will not be able to afford heating in winter? Perhaps long distance walking and cycling to work because not everyone will be able to afford electric car?

Consume and dont question.