Pretty disappointing news honestly if not surprising. I think an LNG terminal in Ireland would be ideal for energy security but of course Eamon Ryan has different ideas.
If only he’d share his alternatives..
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/shannon-lng-650m-liquefied-natural-gas-facility-to-be-rejected-by-an-bord-pleanala/a1564144302.html
A decline in dispatchable electricity generation has absolutely nothing to do with having or not having an LNG terminal.
The Germans have plenty LNG terminals. If what you say is true and LNG is the solution to our problems, then how come they have a problem?
The Irish government target is 936,000 electric vehicles and 600,000 residential premises to be equipped with electric heating sources, including heat pumps, by 2030. Corrib gone by 2030, emergency storage is whatever linepack Moffat gas pipeline can hold and capital writedown of plants like Moneypoint & Tarbert mean very little investment in reliable generation. Irish people and companies must cope with the consequences of a decline in the availability of reliable electricity generation combined with a rapid increase in demand for reliable electricity. Apparently economics does not apply to energy as far as most of the political parties in this state (and the UK) are concerned. Keep this up and by the end of the decade plants like Aughanish Alumina, the Pharma companies and Intel will be gone as future investment in production dries up. Already happening to Germans and a direct consequence of the energy crisis and economic outlook.
EU is planning to reduce gas demand by one third by 2030. Some of LNG terminals will become stranded assets and redundant. According to the energy think tank.
€650 million can get each and every home in Kerry plastered with solar panels providing free electricity (there's about 40.000 homes in Kerry). Plenty of jobs too if that's what politicians worry about. There would be still €200 million left when works are done and paid for.
Anything that helps the lives of the poor the Church of The Green and their high priests oppose
we never learn
The LNG terminal will undercut the cheapest gas delivered from Moffat or the cost of transitting gas from an LNG terminal in GB by one cent per MWh.
France has 56 nuclear reactors providing providing more than half of their electricity needs. We pay almost double for (gas generated) electricity.
Ok but will the gas not just be sourced from the cheapest supply? Ie Moffat?
The cost of gas to supply electricity plants will increase. That cost increase will then be passed on to consumers.
When a new power line is built the cost is most certainly passed on to punters (but the power line brings benefits which may drive down costs in other ways).
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.
So how will electricity consumers pay for this gas terminal?
Electricity consumers already pay a pso levy to replace fossil fuel with renewables and for maintenance of the grid.
This pso doesn’t increase if a new power line is built?
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.
We can already import our gas from anywhere. There is plenty LNG capacity in the UK and Europe.
The interconnectors to GB have to be paid for by Irish gas and electricity consumers whether they are used or not.
These boyos need to go and quickly.
Wasn't he just over in the UK begging that they don't cut us off if things go bad.
What a total tosser. Resign you gangster
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.
Nuclear is way cheaper than gas. Gas is the most expensive of them all to generate electricity.
We are leaving ourselves hostage to our neighbours for energy.
That's the be all and end all.
I was being sarcastic, it's a known joke that goes something like fusion is only 20 years away since 60 years ago.
We managed to create much more than fusion sparks, but in the form of bombs. We're still yet to achieve a net positive sustained and controlled fusion reaction.
all of the main political parties support the modernisation plan.
it's been 20 years away for decades, and only in the last couple of years have they been able to create a fusion that amounts to a tiny spark.
it's definitely not going to happen in 20 years, 200 maybe.
And the useless media repeatedly let him off the hook, never challenging him on his statements.
Eamonn Ryan on the news now blaming the Libyan flood on climate change. Using that to explain how the LNG decision is a good one. No integrity.
Roll on the next election!
Fusion is 20 years away, that's plenty of time to change the laws.
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.
Best of luck with that
Yes we should have nuclear power instead, no messing. We can get rid of the wind farms and all associated crap.
Nope, methane in well water also occurs naturally, we don't know if that case presented in the film is actually caused by fracking. Fracking is no worse (and no better) than any other method of gas and oil extraction, and all have a significant local impact on the environment indeed. There is no clean way to extract and process fossil fuel, so the activism against only fracking is baffling - or maybe not considering who is driving it, and who benefits from gas and oil shortages.
I'd say the poor dolphins will get short shrift in that case ... 😔
Ridiculous as it is, but they could have stipulated that only non-fracked LNG could be used. Qatar is the biggest exporter of LNG and theirs is not fracked
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