"Green" policies are destroying this country

You do know there is a difference between saying they played role and saying that they

"Took 70 seconds for wind and solar to bring their grid"

There were multiple reasons that have been well documented.

As for the interconnector.It was pushed back from 2026 to 2028 last year. It has now been pushed back from early 2028 to late 2028. The way you presented it was that it has just recently been delayed by years. It is not even relevant to the thread but you seem to view anything negative as a positive for your argument.

You are arguing with people whom want a fantasy they been sold on be true and no amounts of facts would change their minds

I can post links to Spanish report for example and even point at exact page numbers and sections like i done in parallel thread showing how renewables caused, contributed in the crucial 70 seconds and then made it harder to recover during the Spanish outage that lasted days and has directly led to deaths of 7 people

And still, thou shall not question the narrative which has ensured we have one of the highest electricity prices in world that is still many multiples every day of co2 generated compared to clean green civilised countries

I have no idea what post you are referring to, but it seems you do.

The search function on this site is crap so if you would be good enough to let me know the post number I would appreciate it.

there are even warnings in the Guardian

Remember that post when the Chinese decide that we are an “unfriendly” country and send us back to Stone Age via remote backdoors

They already are threatening Europe and don’t want us producing anything while the Leftie / Green watermelons cheer them on

I’m using an iPhone which was made in India

where possible I buy things made in EU and my next phone will be European as there are now many emerging brands

Why do left wingers and green watermelons hate the concept of made in EU and defend China? Sinn Feiners have a long history of anti EU policies

Do you think it’s a good green policy that Chinese whom already killed all European “green” manufacturing are now doing same to car industry?

Do you think it’s a good green policy to let them run software in critical infrastructure with back doors and remote kill switches handing control over our lives to unelected elites on other side of world?

Do you think it’s ok for millions of Europeans to be made unemployed in name of “green” policies that don’t benefit us?

See article higher up or thread here

EU is serious but being threatened and blackmailed by China

I don’t understand why anyone who claims to believe in democracy would want to handover even more chunks of European economy to China and our security

You have people rightfully being pissed off about Trump and Greenland, but here we have yet another authoritarian regime that is also threatening everything about our day to day lives and jobs

See the guardian article higher up about all sorts of backdoors and kill switches in the “green” equipment they been selling

There are probably other levers too that would remain the the gray warfare area that likes of Russia been waging on us in Europe too

The chances of nuclear being approved is minimal. We can use Solar today.

Its going to cost us billions in EU climate related fines if we carry on using farms for food we dont need and export daily.

Avoiding those fines and producing some solar energy at the same time & as part of a broader energy strategy, makes a lot of sense.

Just don't pay. A total con

Agri food exports in 2025 were worth €21.2 billion to our economy, and the agri sector employees 170,000. The same as in Tech and over double of those employed in pharma.

The present plan was to reduce emissions by 51% by 2030. It is now not going to achieve even 23% by then even with us importing a large percentage of our electricity attempting to do so. The present plan will not see us anywhere close to zero emissions either by 2050. Based on our projected demand for 2050 on even the lower Eirgrid projections following the current plan would see us burning the same gas if not more in 2050 as we are now.

How many businesses looking at those kind of interim figures for 2030 would even dream of continuing with their policy without them going bankrupt ?

My search was AI also but even taking your figures, subsidies are around 2 billion for agri, so there is still no surplus for the exchequer.

Once we then factor in the cost of the climate fines from 2030, the tax payer is heavily out of pocket as far as Agri is concerned.

There has to be ways of avoiding the emissions and fines, while still maintaining the employment levels.