"Green" policies are destroying this country

How will people heat their homes in winter?

Banned from sale as in bags of coal and portable butane bottles?

Or petrol diesel gas coal oil banned completely?

I'd be in that group. Even from an economical perspective, I don't see the merit in spending 30k on new windows, new boiler and extra insulation. I'll be a long time spending that on energy bills.

Jesus h Christ what a load of crap.

So not being able to heat your house or water using gas or oil.

What is the alternative?

Heat pumps don’t work unless you spend tens of thousands on retrofits and airtightness.

Airtightness only works if you have mechanical ventilation.

These fools have no idea of the actual costs that would be imposed on working folk that don’t qualify for this work to be done free and before anyone mentions grants- all grants do is raise the price of materials and labour. Grants don’t reduce the price of anything.

Great news for us in Ireland - we won't be bound by a mandatory gas reduction if there's a shortage in gas in the EU. Rightly so as we're not directly connected to the EU for gas.

As ever though, Eamon couldn't help throwing a lie in

Gas prices are not "soaring" and any users of gas would be wise to forward buy a good chunk now

No idea if this is right

https://twitter.com/NaomiOhReally/status/1658769839060668416?t=UeMV7BVZOKULmnGAIjYeuQ&s=19

but basically, ryanair carbon emissions attributed to Ireland and we didn't reduce gas use even though we said we would by 15 per cent.

Are all of Ryanairs carbon emissions lumped on to Ireland? Surely it should be split between the departure and arrival country.

that would be my thought but if you read the first tweet

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While that EU statement may look like a win for us in that we would not share the same level of cuts of others should there be a shortage it`s basically meaningless as we would have cuts imposed by the UK via Moffat with little or no control over the level of such cuts.

Without access to the EU supply of LNG, no possibility of anything from Barryroe and no storage capability all thanks to the greens, should their be a shortage the reality is we would end of worse off than the rest of the EU.

Great job greens, you ideological halfwits.

That's bat shït crazy. Do the oil nationals have all the emissions lumped on them from when they sell their fossil fuels?

So let me get this right ... Ireland is being credited with ALL of Ryanair's emissions???

Ryanair carried 160 million passengers last year. It flies 1,750 routes in regions that include North Africa and the Middle East. Only 120 routes (7%) are from Dublin. Ryanair flies more routes internally in Italy than it does between any two countries. Surely it's inconceivable that all that carbon would be counted against Ireland?

Oh, and here's another delicious irony. Ryanair added 22 routes from Dublin last year "on the back of a scheme funded by €90 million in Government aid to allow airports offer airlines incentives to restore routes and passenger numbers". Yes, you heard that right. The government was handing out free money to try and induce carriers to increase their traffic to pre-pandemic levels. "Carriers that restore more than half their 2019 traffic to Dublin will get 50 per cent of their airport charges back, while those that bring in more than 70 per cent will 100 per cent refunds".

How schizophrenic is it that the Green's were revelling in the lower carbon emissions cause by the pandemic economic shutdown, and seem all surprised and upset that a resilient economy could bounce back? Meanwhile another wing of government is throwing around sweeteners precisely to get our emissions back up.

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We are world class clowns when it comes to building infrastructure. We seem to be great at half-assed bureaucracy, such as all those 300-item checklists you keep spamming us with. Plus spiteful little moves like cancelling civil service parking spaces (did anyone consider that employees would already be using public transport if it was a remotely attractive option?). But building major port infrastructure to incentivise offshore wind? ... I doubt it. I expect they'll pfaff around for years (like they have with the so-called green energy hub at Moneypoint). I also expect some of the successful bidders at the ORESS-1 auction will eventually pull out, citing bureaucratic ineptitude (just as Equinor and Shell did last year). Maybe while MARA is twiddling its thumbs it could look to approving Barryroe and Inishkea, since Ryan has shut down his petroleum affairs division and hasn't found time to sign a simple piece of paper in the last three years. (And it's not just fossil fuels ... he's doing his best to kill Tara Mines with bureaucracy too). Though no doubt he'd claim he's been busy talking to "other world leaders".

More on the malinvestments that are coming to light as the free money era for green investments dries up:

€250 million smackers raised, promising a 30% return. €100 million was loaned to other companies in the group. £26 million went in fundraising fees, more than half of it to companies connected to or owned by Solar 21's owners. The flagship project appears to have gone south.