"Green" policies are destroying this country

He just spouts continuous lies and gets away with it

"Last month, wind energy provided nearly half of all electricity in Ireland, driving down the cost of energy, he said."

I must have missed the announcement that energy providers here reduced their pricing. Or, is he like our resident green here who doesn't know the difference between wholesale and marginal pricing.

Look at the map of Germany and its position in Europe and tell us if Ireland would have the same issues with off shore wind as they have with onshore?

I am not an expert in this area and am only an ordinary consumer who agrees that it is a no brainer to increase our energy from wind and solar where possible.

I don't understand the way people are so rigidly opposed to getting cheaper ( in the long term) cleaner energy from our obviously very windy coastline ?

As regards nuclear it is a expensive and costly ( in maintenance, staffing, construction and waste) way to source energy and its unbelievable that some posters here are pushing it as a viable alternative for an island nation, at this stage in our evolution.

France for example, are trying to row back from nuclear due to high maintenance and costs from corrosion, and waste management. 70 years indeed, and crumbling reactors!

As regards the nuclear reactors in China, well, excuse me for not being wowed by that country's efforts! 🙄

It's not cheaper, that's the whole point. Nor is it securing our energy independence as some claim because we are still beholden to other countries to manufacture, mine, and develop all these other technologies.

Honestly we are looking to upgrade an entire electrical network developed for large scale generation with something completely different and some crackpots (not you) think this can be achieved by 2030 or even sooner. They are off their rockers. It's not going to happen and would bankrupt the country if they tried.

We should be looking to slowly wean off fossil fuels over a much longer timescale. The main reason being even if we switched off everything in this country now it wouldn't register in global emissions and only serves to make the citizens here all the poorer. It all sounds like a great idea, we should lead the way blah blah blah, but it's never ever backed up with an economical viable plan. We'd be far better off spending the hundreds of billions required on sorting out the housing issue, improve the student to teacher ratio and drive up education standards, than any of these other initiatives.