"Green" policies are destroying this country

Next week elections in Holland will likely change things even more. The new NSC has upset the traditional parties and are likely to become the biggest.A recent poll has highlighted the rise of the PVV who are truely anti immigration and Green Agenda. They might overtake the top three as they poll not far away, especially since the NSC seems to want the green way to go ahead, though they are opposed to 'stikstof' measures from the previous cabinet (not Co2).The other newcomer BBB is also not keen on a lot of green policies. It will be interesting..

Ireland doesn't have many GW already installed of Offshore wind. We had a paltry 25MW off Arklow, recently reduced because lightning blew the seven shades out of one of the turbines.

Ah, but it won't. Because a high court challenge to the effect of these guidelines is already in preparation.

They attempt to ride roughshod over local government democracy and disempower local people, which is contrary to the entire thrust of the 2014 Local Government Act, and so must be struck down.

And as you know, both local and general elections aren't far away, so this illegal guidance on Section 38, in particular, will be tossed around litigiously, until the Green presence in local and national politics is obliterated at these polls and then it can be binned altogether.

Thanks Mannix! 😉

Yes. I had a look at that yesterday. The UK government has committed itself and ( i think) signed long term contracts agreeing to pay frankly insane higher prices (50-70%). This is lunacy on a grand scale. Committed to an ideology over the heads of their own citizens.

It's heartening to see the Greens longstanding strong approach to local democracy. This from their election manifesto in 2014 suggesting local referendums for transport infrastructure projects:

"Local referendums should be provided for major transport infrastructure and redevelopments, the Green Party has suggested. Launching their local elections manifesto yesterday, the Greens also maintain that locals should have a direct say in how a portion of the council budget is spent."

But that was then, this is now:

Under new guidelines from Eamon Ryan's Department, there'll be no more of that let me tell you. This from the Dublin Enquirer

"Under new guidelines issued by the Department of Transport, the council shall no longer do public consultations before trialling things like cycle lanes, or filtered permeability systems, Dublin City Council’s transport chief says."

No doubt there'll be some who will say but Marcos this is for medium projects, as if Eamo's Department hasn't moved the goalposts. It's very Jesuitical and reminds me of Trevor Sargent saying he wouldn't lead the Greens into coalition with FF only to resign as leader on the eve of them going into coalition with FF for the first time.

They are really showing their contempt for (local) democracy, but then again they distrust the plebs to vote the correct way. So they rule by diktat. What do you expect of a party who's leader Eamon Ryan said on video that he would welcome a one world government if it bypassed democracy and implemented all the Green policies over all opposition?

A perfect example of Green Party NIMBYism. Emissions are grand so long as not in Ireland. The only other justification I can think of is that they are convinced that the planet's climate is particularly vulnerable to Irish emitted CO2.

Any lack of inward investment isn't because of renewables, it's because of grid capacity