"Green" policies are destroying this country

Just read the Examiner article linked here. Not sure what planet this O’Reilly is on? She certainly has no time for FG. Am amazed this coalition is still in place based on her vitriolic rant.

I’d love to know how she expects to get votes throughout the midlands where her dictator party leader has done his best to outlaw turf cutting.

They haven't. It's in one of the reports they commissioned. I'll have a gawk later and see what I can find.

Re. the plugging holes. When the sums were done and it says we've X emissions, then we find that big massive hole spewing methane out. Were the numbers changed or if we plug that hole are we now better off as the X number is drastically reduced? Or is this just accountancy and the actual plugging of the hole won't be done because X doesn't change. Forget the emissions and all that - is that it?

As to what to do about our own emissions. No idea. Tax the bejaysus out of aviation fuel in line with other fossil fuels? Higher taxes for non EVs in urban settings. Free upgrades of homes to a B standard? More high rise buildings instead of urban sprawl? More tree cover in urban settings? Probably more if I spend a bit more time thinking about it. Cheaper PT maybe? More electric buses in towns. Higher taxes on the likes of cement factories which are fierce high emitters of polution?

Charlie14, don’t hold Your breath expecting dc to change his/her tune. He/she cannot even answer a straight yes or no question.

What two prices are you comparing now?

Here's the first steps to the cull plan by now engaging stakeholders to see how they like it

I asked you about something similar you posted a while back , as to could you repost as the search function here is rubbish, but you must have missed it. No worries I did a bit of research myself and the figures really are outlandish, but not how you see them.

Finland has the same population as Ireland but consumes 2.86 the level of electricity we do annually (81.6TWh compared to 28.5TWh)

That €11 billion is providing 15% of their electricity. That is the equivalent of €11 billion providing 43% of our needs. The offshore wind+hydrogen plan for 100% with 30GW (and this is before it was furher increased by a few more GW) was costing over €200 billion.

You do the maths as to which figure is the outlandish one.

Hang on, we have to send money to poorer countries to allow them decarbonise faster? I thought the point was that they hadn't used their share of the remaining carbon budget yet, so they're entitled to emit more. So why wouldn't we spend our own money on negative carbon emissions, thereby leaving the money under our own control and available for technologies that we are more capable of producing. This smells of some socialist utopia. And then I saw this bit:

It's socialist utopia meets bullshit new age religion:

That's grift on a par with any televangelist. Uh, no. Just no. Wake up and smell the coffee. While these people are rabbiting on about free handouts for the living Mother Earth and ending the "patriarchal civilizing model" of capitalism, here's what's going on in the real world:

At today's Paris airshow IndiGo ordered 500 Airbus A320s to add to the 830 aircraft it already has in the order pipeline. That's about 15 million annual tonnes of CO2 -- a quarter of Ireland's total emissions -- in just the future orderbook of a single Indian airline. Is that the decarbonisation you were talking about, that we have to pay for? Pull the other one. The Greens are hell bent on destroying not just this country, but the world. Come next election I will support literally anyone who actively campaigns against them.

The ORESS-1 auction price versus Dutch TTG gas price per megawatt (randomly plucked from a couple of weeks ago like the Greenies did when they declared wind nine times cheaper than gas), downgraded to 60% to allow for CCGT efficiency.

The idea is that we should all feel incredibly guilty about using hydrocarbons which relates to colonialism and capitalism which in turn raped and pillaged the Earth. In order to restore the natural equilibrium we should halt capitalism and any idea of growth, especially in the western world. We want the same for the developing world (Africa) so should go out and lecture them how to lead a moral life (Macron). This makes us feel good about ourselves after being filled w self hatred (a modern idea). That is the balance right there (and the likes of Bill Gates after taking advantage of his monopoly for decades). In the meantime money can be made by pushing the transition (Bill gates et al again). Big money can steer this ship. If it crashes you can be sure they wouldve already jumped on another one. The Elon Musks of this world will not suffer, they can move w the tide. Poor people are stuck and will, en masse..

And to prove Jrant's point about manufacturing: the (german) company BASF, one of the largest chemical companies has already moved over 60% of production out of the EU due to regulations (constrains). They stay to gobble up green subsidies and see how the green ship fairs before jumping off and pulling out altogether. We see this de-industrialisation happening everywhere in the west. A de facto green dream turning into a nightmare with the greens insisting the dream continues..

That's one way of looking at it. Another is that the Minister for Dreams, Energy Chaos and Codswollop bled them dry by intentionally dawdling on key decisions before he eventually stumbled on a requirement that didn't initially apply to them, but he made sure to hang them on it anyway.

I doubt that they'd have run out of money mid stream had Eamon not screwed them over. Now that he has, the question remains - where is our energy security going to come from? With Corrib on the way out, Kinsale successfully killed off so it can't even be used for storage and insufficient oil storage reserves, what happens next? The Ukrainian invasion shows us that energy security is fundamental to safeguard our economy but also for more basic needs like keeping warm and having a light on in the dark. We were lucky last winter, who knows what the next few winters might bring.

If ER had one iota of sense, he'd step in and create some sort of StáitOla and let the state take it on. That way he could ensure that whatever environmental considerations would be met and that any benefits would go directly to our citizens rather than lining the pockets of private companies.

To underpin my previous post, this article points to those companies behind the push for green energy who are starting to turn and pull out of schemes they previously were part of. Maybe they are realising that the resistance is getting bigger and that they won't be able to control the implementation of green policies even when new laws have been made. Also, the crash of a multitude of green startups and the financing of those companies makes it harder for shareholders to support. The recent(!) German debacle is clearly having an effect as well as the political pushback in several countries w new leaders/parties elected. These are all my inferences. But still, money talks..

Meh, it's just more of the same RCP garbage in, garbage out computer model projections picked to agree with the narrative, these models have no demonstrated predictive skill. The pretty colours will excite climate bed wetters and keep them in line, they are not presenting evidence and they have been careful not to put target numbers on their press releases, i.e no accountability.