"Green" policies are destroying this country

Rewetting bogs involves reversing the drainage channels that were dug to clear the water from the rain that we have had this summer.

Rewetting the bogs does 2 things. It stops emissions of carbon from the soil as the bogs dry out and the vegitation starts to decompose in an aerobic environment. The amount of emissions caused by drained bogs on their own is massive, and will contribute to a significant amount of warming if we don't address this.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0615-5

Re-wetting bogs changes them back to being a carbon sink (this doesn't happen immediately, but over time) , which actively sequesters carbon dioxide from our atmosphere and contributes towards reducing the emissions from Irish land use.

If we can re-wet more of our bogs, we can both increase our natural biodiversty of native species, and give us some breathing space to meet our carbon reduction commitments at a more manageable pace.

They considered the land to be 'wasteland'

In fact, that land is a very valuable natural resource in it's state as a peat bog.

Most of the drained bogs are being used to grow Pine and Spruce forestry which is low value and destroys the natural ecosystem they are planted on.

Practically no food is grown on drained bogs, other than some sheep grazing (farming EU subsidies more than food)

Ireland was absolutely devastated by centuries of British occupation, our natural forests were chopped down to make British Cathedrals and the ships they used to colonise the world leaving us with one of the least forested landscapes in Europe.

Our pussyfooting around the need for new generation (and Ryan's insistence that it be temporary and only for emergencies) means we now have to build it in the face of high inflation.

Just in case anyone thought this was going to make wind power more competitive ... GE are wind turbine suppliers too. And we need gas backup for any new wind anyway.

The sooner the better.

The Greens 2008 decision to make diesel the most economic choice for Irish motorists was one of the worst environmental political decisions this century in Ireland.

Sunak, the Tory that he is, is looking for a get out of jail card before the next election. He thinks the ULEZ issue cost Labour votes in the last bi-election so now he's going all in on the anti environmentalism.

Why? Because he's a Tory, and he's a liar. (ULEZ was a Tory Policy that he's now using to beat Labour with)

The UK changing the rules about ICE cars won't make a difference. The EU ban on ICE sales kicks in in 2035, the UK's policy won't make much of a difference to the plans of the vehicle manufacturers who will be aiming to scale back production well in advance of this date, and consumers will mostly have migrated to ICE well before 2035 as BEVs are just better than ICE in almost every way (with modern batteries having ranges greater than 300km and life expectencies greater than the lifetime of the car)

Today the cost of BEV batteries has fallen back below $100 per KW, it's fallen by 8% in a month, and 33% since March 2022

As soon as the ICE manufacturers can make the same margin producing BEVs as they can ICE cars, they'll switch production to BEVs

It was a big mistake. But one that was made off the back of criminal fraud by the manufacturers who falsified their emissions test results.

Would be nice if you reserved some of your anger for those who deliberately lied and allowed their cars to emit toxic fumes when they thought nobody was measuring them.

Who You referring to? FYI, I’m in my 60’s and have had 4 vaccines ( I admit I baulked on the third booster. But I’m also against the greens in Ireland ( am in Cape Town writing this ).

Lol, did Germany not just get the EU to bend over to facilitate ice cars after 2035 with so called zero carbon fuels? What's the difference in Britain doing it ?

Did she get the Greta yacht over or was it first class all the way..

The EU bringing in regulations in 2007 is completely irrelevant. You claimed that the VW scandal had an influence on the Green party's disastrous decision to change the Irish motor taxation system in 2008. It didn't.

"the deceptive software was evidently introduced with the 2009 model year."

And even if every car sold had actually met the European diesel emission regulations of the time it still would have been a disastrous policy. Plenty of scientists at the time advised that favouring diesel engines would lead to more local level pollution than petrol engines, because this was well known. But the Greens ignored them because they wanted to virtue signal.

An anti-science decision which has reduced the quality of life, and killed, plenty of Irish people. Something no Irish voters should forget.

That's not true

Really? Explain why they want more subsidies: EV makers call for incentives to lure wary UK drivers

How about this: Electric car sales switch into reverse

The EVs are mostly bought by businesses and fleets for the tax breaks, the individual punters are not really interested.

VW is cutting jobs at its German EV factory because demand is plunging

The green policy that demonised petrol, a far cleaner amd more appropriate for small urban cars, so Ireland could be at the vanguard of green virtue signalling on the world stage and earn friendly UN/EU pats on the back. More concerned about the polar bear than their constituents health