"Green" policies are destroying this country

Non-stop comments rambling on about Kerry and the Healy Raes and god knows what is certainly no explanation for anything. And for the record, your comments todate on that subject are incorrect

And yes its private company just like all the private companies taking advantage of being able to erect wind farms and sell that energy here.

And no not all LNG is from fracked sources. Some is. Thats how it is. Wind turbines get built on bogs that destroy them and solar farms require the bulldozing of all trees and hedges over 100s of acres.

And the fact we have no LNG terminal in Ireland thanks to the green party means we get fuqed over again when we need a safe, secure and reliable source of natural gas.

And Kerry is NOT the only place where LNG terminals are planned.

Ireland is part of the EU and will be able to avail of any joint efforts between the EU and the US on natural gas

I guess you didn't bother reading the article then which explains in simple words why Irelands needs a secure, stable and reliable supply of natural gas especially since the green have already fuqed over the country by banning all future natural gas exploration here.

US President Joe Biden and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said in a joint statement.

“We commit to intensifying our strategic energy cooperation for security of supply and will work together to make available reliable, and affordable energy supplies to citizens and businesses in the EU and its neighbourhood.”

Or this?

Industry figures predicted that Irish electricity prices will rise “40 to 50 per cent”, while gas customers could face a doubling in their bills as the volatility continued through the day.

He believes that the volatility will continue until Europe increases imports of liquid natural gas (LNG), allowing it “to turn off the tap” on Russian supplies. “Then the price will drop back down,” he said

Viability is also effected by price - as gas prices rise fields that previously were unviable are now worth exploring.

So can I extrapolate from your answer some are viable?

All the green nonsense coming back to hurt us now as it was always going to.

A big reality check taking place right now.

Thats a situation that gas and oil producers face all over the world - a risk you have to take (or not).

Any decision to go ahead with extraction will take future projected prices into account anyways - viability is not based solely on a spot price.

As for prices dropping, well plenty of producers in US were driven out of business during oil price wars with Saudis - it happens. But not going ahead at all might mean the price never drops. From a national strategic point of view, it makes far more sense to proceed with extraction and sure if prices fall, at least we still have relatively cheap supply of gas. The alternative is prices that only go up and our industry suffers massively as a result.

How? How will they sell to the highest bidder? They do not extract gas, they just import it and convert LNG to pipeline gas for use in this country. They can only sell to Ireland.

Again, look at whitegate. A private owned refinery, they do not sell abroad if someone would pay more than Ireland. Thats not how this works at all.

While many of the negatives of fracking are highly disputed, there are more fields in/around this country that are accessible through other means. You clearly have an agenda to unequivocally state that only fracking can get any gas in this country.

The Corrib gas field is in active production. Don't know if there's any at the farmout stage.

I don't want to accuse any individual but I wake up and see another 10+ pages I really doubt they're doing it out of the goodness of their heart.

You'd probably have to be a member of a political party for a certain number of years before they extend that privilege to you.

Runs out in 2025 though.

The excuses for stopping the building of a LNG terminal get more bizarre with every iteration

Now we shouldn't build anything here because the Russians just might blow it up!!!

And yes the US supplying gas will help to keep down prices and provide security of gas supply right across Europe

From previous

"US President Joe Biden and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said in a joint statement."

“We commit to intensifying our strategic energy cooperation for security of supply and will work together to make available reliable, and affordable energy supplies to citizens and businesses in the EU and its neighbourhood.”

If we don't build a LNG Terminal we most certainly will not get any benefits and Ireland will indeed be "screwed"