"Green" policies are destroying this country

There are time your prevarication and spoofing really does crack me up 😁

Indeed regardless of being asked on many many occasions by posters you have never made any claim as to the cost of this 37GW plan, yet rather bizarriely that hasn`t stopped you claiming that it will provide better value than any other proposed solution, and even now you are calling someone costings makey-uppey.

I have no problem showing you what these "makey-uppey" costs for this 37GW plan are based on that would leave the capital spend for just the offshore section alone at anything between €140 Billion and €220 Billion, with more spend required every 20 - 25 years, but where would the point be as you will just come back with just more prevarication and spoofing rather than a figure.

Not only that, now that things are going so badly the EU commission wants to expand the EU with more troublesome countries like Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia and put (your) money in private investment funds to support current and future wars and keep funding bankrupt countries (Ukraine).

Furthermore, they seek an obligatory european digital identity w your face, fingerprints and access to all your documents (banks, healthcare, travel, transactions, mobile devices, internet) plus CBDCs to be able to control and track each individual.

And indeed fund and speed up green projects without cost-benefit analyses.

(And that Irish investment fund uses the pension money the citizens have/ are paying and give you NO return on investment. Instead of secure long-term returns we will be paying for future DEBT).

Now what could possibly go wrong here?

These people are fascists, plain and simple. Every move an indication. Bigger, faster, more on every front. It's in their DNA. And if someone calls this a conspiracy theory they are damn right because it is..

It's a major threat to the people and countries of Europe yet the mainstream political parties seem uninterested.

That truly entered conspiracy forum territory...

If they manage to build one turbine that will be more carbon saved than if Ireland went mad and build nuclear, so a win whatever.

Offshore wind is a proven technology with many GW already installed. There is no technical reason why Ireland will not have massive amounts of offshore wind built out in the next decade.

The same economic factors impacting wind are killing nuclear power projects stone dead. The difference is that wind will recover from the current financing issues.

Let's be clear, when people talk about the cost to build nuclear they are generally been deeply disengenious since they never discuss the whole lifetime cost of build, security, waste storage, decommissioning, long term waste storage. Costs which most nuclear powers have not faced yet. France as a country has big issues facing it when it has to pick up the bill for decommissioning its nuclear bet.

Again, you're missing the point. Repeatedly it has been claimed by various posters that cost and time over runs are the reason not to build nuclear, but seemingly those reasons are okay for offshore wind.

Financing is the issue not cost overruns. All contracts were written based on an economy that no longer exists. That's a reality faced by all large engineering projects including nuclear - but far worse for nuclear since the loan periods are massively longer.

So how are your nuclear investments panning out ?

Here are more eNGOs in action, this time fronted by Trocaire and Christian Aid, both organisations associated with Climate Action Network (CAN). CAN is a United Nations eNGO, founded soon after the IPCC (1988). The dominant players in CAN are Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. This is one of the reasons charities such as Trocaire have become entangled in the politics of climate change and helped found another local eNGO shopfront called Stop Climate Chaos.

Coincidentally, Mr. Eamon Ryan happens to be the the EUs lead negotiator for loss and damage in COP28 and no doubt his ego is writing cheques that Irish taxpayers bodies can't cash. The Irish government has allocated €1.233 billion to foreign aid for 2023, presumably the NGOs are "asking on behalf of a friend" for another €1.5 billion on top of this. As it happens, activists within the United Nations has been after this dosh since the showed their hand at the 2017 Bonn conference.

Which organisation will administer the funds?, the World bank will. This should concern us taxpayers, especially as minister Ryan may be putting us on the hook for what the world bank terms "callable capital". As a side note, the United States president appoints the head of the World bank.

That begs the question, by pimping on behalf of the World bank, are Trocaire potentially undermining the work they do? The obsession with climate is actually having an impact on such charities, and people they help or could help. The reason being more charity anti-poverty funding gets reallocated to climate funding. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) is just Climate Activism Disguised as Development Assistance.

How the war on climate change slams the world’s poor

The millennium forests are a great asset in a country with one of the lowest tree covers in Europe. Been to quite a few and a great idea.

The greens rarely use the correct term when stating power ( as in 35GW.)The standard (normal) way should be ..W PER HOUR.

That is not a mistake but done deliberately. It is to impress the energy naive. Look ma, a higher number!

Did you ever go look for your millennium tree though?

Anyway I like trees but trees may also be managed for fuel. I'm surprised Greens don't promote them more as a source of heating. Far more sustainable and far less polluting in terms of materials and construction than industrial wind machines.

You'll be waiting. Some here are allergic when it comes to backing up their statements

I did go and look at my tree.

The Greens have actually promoted domestic wood for fuel in the form of wood pellets, made and used in Ireland from wood waste, about to install a wood pellet wood heater myself. So yes they do.