"Green" policies are destroying this country

They spent c. $200m drilling other prospects to add to their portfolio of discovered resources. They are/were an exploration company. It was only after the oil price crash of 2014-17 that they countenanced becoming a producer themselves. They've been waiting on permits for the past three years (not all of it attributable to the current minister). Whatever the reasons, the current bottleneck is the lack of a permit and that is down to Ryan.

The fact that both domestic and utility-scale renewables are getting more expensive is not a matter of perspective. The cost of energy is a massive strain on the economy. Despite the promises and hype, renewables are not capable of bringing it down. Meanwhile green government policies and corporate ESG policies have starved the fossil fuel industry -- the one that actually keeps the lights on -- of resources leading to underinvestment and price hikes. It's always been a cyclical market: high prices generate more development until the next oil glut depresses it, with a lag of several years corresponding to the timeline for new projects to come online. The danger is that the current high price signal is not generating new development because of green policies, and we will be stuck in an upward spiral of costs. That will be devastating for a lot of people, and lethal in developing economies. That's why green policies are not just stupid, but evil.

But the real bonus DC is that the greens are dead in Galway for at least 20 years.

Public perception dear boy,the greens own this,rightly or wrongly the green party chair has attached her name to this in a very public way, the electorate will not forget.

You're absolutely mistaken. It will be shovel ready by the end of 2024 and open to traffic sometime in 2027, give or take.

Resubmitting the project tweaked for the climate plan is a minor matter. Where you get the 2040s from I do not know.

Why can’t we do both?

The wind-up merchant speaks.

Whose houses should be CPO'd for this commuter rail? Like to submit a map of the routes you intend so we can count how many hundreds of homes you are planning to take for the greater good?

I presume you missed these elements of reasoning behind the ring road?

Exactly the things you are advocating for which won't happen now. Are you sure you aren't secretly running the Russian war effort?

Is that not kinda the issue though dacor?

There isn’t a plan that allows investment in roads plus the PT.

It’s the same with energy- we can’t have fossil fuel storage or new conventional generation (bar the gas plants ER realised we need in a panic) plus renewables.

That’s the flaw with the greens there’s no realism whatsoever.

So build the ring road but build the PT at the same time.

Toll the ring road and do low cost fares on the PT.

To help bankroll the subsidised PT you use the tolls.

Give people the choice but incentivise PT- don’t just force it on people.

Its my civic duty to expose and oppose incoherent and biased policies as espoused by the Green party, the wanton waste of public money on an ill conceived grant system should be on the minds of every right thinking citizen and your juvenile riposte is quite disappointing.

Albeit in Galway they did nearly twenty years in the wilderness and some lucky transfers gave them a leg up the last time, the climate has now changed(pun intended) people dont recognise or respect this new green party with their cruel,divisive and inequitable policies, the sense of glee that some greens have at people struggling to pay fuel bills is unsettling but also quite revealing.

Any uncovering of wastefulness of public money and bad practices takes time to expose but it will happen. We all saw what happened to the catholic church in this country, same will happen to the greens, its just a matter of time,people will wake up.The greens are finished.