"Green" policies are destroying this country

Green policies. All of them. Fu.ck the environment.

What did the environment ever do for us anyway.

I support Nuclear where it makes sense. Nuclear in Ireland is a quagmire waiting to happen.

The UK have no objections to nuclear, why is there no nuclear power in N.I.

Are the greens in power up there?

Low Traffic Neighbourhoods are popping up everywhere in London now, they drive certain cohorts absolutely mental, it's great. Blocking off streets to only bikes and resident's cars to stop rat running and it keeps motorists on the main roads. We now have lots of streets with basically no traffic about a 30 minute walk from the City.

plenty of areas in Dublin could have LTN in place to stop rat running and allowing for quieter safer streets.

And yes fair play to that absolute legend, although I thought it was only entitled young middle class trustafarians who were part of Just Stop Oil.

Ah, as long as the air inside your house is clean, that's all that matters.

And electricity won't be 'cheap and plentiful' with nuclear. It will be about the same price as it is now if not more expensive, and non existent for the 20 years it would take to build it

Points at the fact that the French Tax payer are massively subsidising EDF.

The french pay the same as we do for electricity, its just paid through income tax instead of utility bills

People can not freeze, and also not poison people with toxic fumes from their chimneys

I don't accept your 83 billion figure

but even if I did, 83 billion is cheap for 30 years worth of energy. And we would be able to sell a lot of that energy as an export to offset the manufacturing costs. I would not be at all surprised if the infrastructure generated more income for the country than it cost to build.

How much does Ireland pay each year to import coal oil and gas for electricity, and diesel and petrol for for transport?

4.5 billion a year is our energy import bill at the moment.

The 'rotating cost' of fossil fuels is 135 billion for the same 30 years

And Nuclear requires backup, so we'd still need to have either fossil fuel or renewable or interconnectors to power the country while the plant is offline for servicing and refuelling.

And its absolutely hilarious that you consider that NI is Nuclear powered because it's interconnected with the GB grid when Ireland is also interconnected with them.

the Irish grid is an all ireland grid. So if you are happy for NI to have it's nuclear energy in GB, then what are you complaining about Ireland doing exactly the same?

edit - the 4.5 billion is just for energy imports, we still also pay Shell billions for the gas, from the Corrib field)

what are these taxes you speak of that the greens are responsible for?

How much do they cost when they're not built by slaves?

Seen a coal mine recently? Or tar sands

As dirty as this mining is , it's much much less impactful than the fossil fuel industry

So do China for the solar panels, the greens second God after turbines, and I have not seen you fall all over yourself complaining about China.

Does this have some different annoying smell to lovely peat or briquettes?

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