"Green" policies are destroying this country

They would be generating carbon free electricity most of the time, which means we don't need as much of that gas

It's really not that hard.

It's like if I grow my own food that allows me to be self sufficient for 10 months of the year, but for 2 months, I need to buy food from the supermarket. If the supermarket food goes up in price, it would affect me for the full 12 months if I didn't have my own independent food for those other 10 months

Ireland has a natural absolute advantage in wind generation

We have a brilliant resource available to us, and you are arguing that we focus instead on something that we know is extremely scarce, expensive to exploit and won't last more than a few years

You try to pitch that at the dragons den and you'll make the highlights reel but for the wrong reasons.

It`s not that difficult to understand that when the wind is not blowing those turbines are generating nothing, and as we have practically all our eggs in the unreliable wind basket, we need natural gas to prevent the lights going out. And before you start on batteries, with the long periods of no wind this year, batteries would not put a dent in what would be required over such periods.

You mentioned earlier that everyone agrees we need fossil fuels for years to come, so why is Ryan sitting on his hand on Barryroe ?

Or why are our bunch of muppets attempting to ban LNG when our own regulator, unlike some here, seeing the realities of us not having a secure energy source to back up unreliable renewables (and by not doing so us not being in compliance with E.U. directives), recommending we have a terminal for LNG ?

Looking off wishfully down the road at future distant years when we have somehow reached 100% renewable energy for all our needs I have no problem with. What I do have a problem with is the magic thinking that this is going to happen by some magical leap. It`s not, and the sooner some wake up and realize that the better for all of us.

Right now, and for years to come, we are going to need fossil fuels and for us that is natural gas. The greens seriously need to wise up and recognise that rather than behaving like headless chickens running around attempting to ignore we have in all probability a viable off-shore source, as well as attempting to ban LNG which would give us a much greater degree of energy security and have us complying with an E.U directive.

How much of our natural gas needs are now supplied by Corrib and when is the Corrib field due to be depleted ?

You're the expert, why are you asking Me?

Or, you could just tell me what your point is...

You are advocating that we depend on the UK gas grid to generate our electricity which goes against what the cru and the climate change council is recommending as has been pointed out numerous times on this thread.

The date for first production at the Barryroe gas field is 2026 as announced by the company.

But thats not what you said in your previous comment

You indicated that Barryroe was only now seeking an Exploration Licence and that's incorrect.

But hey no matter. It looks like we're making some progress. Previously you were claiming we wouldn't see anything from Barryroe until 2030 lol

And here we go again. Would you stop repeating the same old stuff again and again. None of which stands up to inspection.

We already have access to gas via the Uk, we have a connection to the UK grid, which in turn is connected to France

We currently have access to the UK gas supply, which unfortunately as our Energy Regulator has pointed out, is no longer a secure supply following Brexit. The point being we have no security of supply or preferential access to UK natural gas supplies. That and the fact that the UK gas reserves are running out.

Ditto access to the UK grid and any supply it may get from Europe. Point being the UK is no longer in the EU or has any preferential access to the EU grid.

We also plan our own direct connection to France. Connect to France means we are connected to the entire European grid.

The connector to France is a proposal which whilst would certainly be great on paper - is still only in the planning stage. With France now experiencing countrywide electricity shortages and has been importing Electricity from other countries. The proposal for a France - Ireland interconnector is now looking more like something we hope might happen than otherwise.

The Kerry LNG if built will cost 650m and Irish home owners will still be paying for it after it shut down. It won’t make electricity cheaper, it will make it more expensive

The 'Kerry LNG' won't cost Ireland a red cent as the building costs are borne by the company involved. And why do you imagine any such costs would accrue to "home owners"? That doesn't make any sense.

You were asked previously for a source for your claim that a LNG facility would make electricity "more expensive". You have consistently failed to do so.

The raving of a religious maniac put forward as fact.

Because we have natural gas reserves for years to come. 2025 is years away. And we have Moffat after that. We have years to put the right infrastructure in place.

I'm an atheist

There is not going to be a gas shortage. You're being fed lies by the fossil fuel industry who are spending millions on misinformation campaigns and lobbying

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/08/oil-companies-climate-crisis-pr-spending

The oil and gas industry intend to keep business as usual while they pretend to support action on climate change

Given what we know about climate change, this is absolutely insane