Shannon LNG terminal plans rejected by ABP

I think the sane thing to do is ramp down on fossil fuel only AFTER we ramped up on sustainable alternatives, but what do I know.

BTW, fracking is totally fine, it doesn't pollute more than normal extraction, and that tap water caching fire thing had nothing to do with fracking and everything to to with political activism. And that political activism in Europe resulted in a fracking ban across the EU, to the benefit of you know who.

The cost of offshore wind turbines will also be passed on to consumers

no just modern, efficient, low expensivity renewables which work and are reliable at scale, as they all compliment each other when and where one is not operating to full capacity.

of course they will, but the costs will be lower.

the consumer is always going to pay some bit for the costs of energy generation and the costs of the infrastructure will always be passed on to us.

Yes we should have nuclear power instead, no messing. We can get rid of the wind farms and all associated crap.

nuclear power would be unviable due to cost and reliability.

nuclear would require at least 3 reactors costing 40 billion each and would still require back up from renewables, meaning it's easier, cheaper and more efficient to operate renewables at scale.

Roll on the next election!

And the useless media repeatedly let him off the hook, never challenging him on his statements.

all of the main political parties support the modernisation plan.

We are leaving ourselves hostage to our neighbours for energy.

That's the be all and end all.

this is not the case.

nuclear has been shown to be the most expensive energy generation source but the most unreliable.

you could have a single power station powering the whole country using gas, a single power station backing that up using coal, a single power station using biomass, and on and on, and all of that would be a fraction of the cost of 1 nuclear reactor in terms of construction, on going operation and decommissioning.

nuclear looks cheap but when the costs are examined along with everything else it comes out being poor value for money, a high price tag and low reliability.

These boyos need to go and quickly.

Gas is traded openly and we can source gas from anywhere in the world. There is plenty LNG capacity in GB and the EU.

But consumers will have to pay for the cost of the interconnectors to GB whether or not they are used. They are not subject to the open market and are effectively paid for by a levy.

If Eamonn Ryan as so concerned about the environment in this country he would be protesting every day in the Dail saying all immigration to Ireland must be stopped as increasing population increases our use of resources here and therefore is not good for the environment.

But of course you'll never hear an environmentalist argue against inward migration to any country because being in favour of immigration is part of the leftist doctrine and in reality they are only environmentalist because it's a leftist cause, none of them really care about the environment at all.

Eamonn Ryan has 4 children.If he genuinely cared about the environment he'd have limited himself to a very maximum of 2 and probably should have stuck with only having 1 child.Having children is by far the worst thing any human being can do for the environment.