eh, the lobbyists have made the EPA tweet go viral now
Its a pity the journey to your carbon negative lifestyle took you to australia and back so many times by plane. Like a fella smoking 60 major a day for 40years giving up then going down to the lads in the pub that smoke when they drink and giving them dogs abuse.
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That’s a fine way to call a man a cunt without calling him a cunt.
Sure it’s like water off a cunt’s back with him anyway.
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Nasty post
Can anyone do the necessary here?
Isnt Barry in Government?
Looks like he is playing to his base, the big news & the lasting legacy of this Government is the massive transformation to renewable energy
Ireland’s solar revolution: the country’s fastest-growing renewable power source is having a profound impact – The Irish Times
Ireland makes history with its first offshore wind auction | WindEurope
Sorry. That trick didn’t work. Sometimes it does. Search the article headline and it works for me. But the link to it didn’t.
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Eamonn would be totally innocent of playing to his base of course.
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whats his base? people who want their kids to have a future, surprised you are so aghast by that thought tbh
People who don’t want a Metro going under their houses?
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Dude, I just asked if someone could put up the article and you come out all defensive. Have you the article? Stick it up if you have please. Transparency and all that.
Fianna Fáil TD accuses Eamon Ryan of sitting on power supply crisis report for six months
Barry Cowen says the state ‘keeps failing the public on security of energy supply, costs and strategy’
DANIEL MURRAY
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Barry Cowen, Fianna Fáil TD: “That report I’m told was given to Minister Eamon Ryan last February and has remained in his office ever since without ever being published." Picture: Gareth Chaney Collins
Barry Cowen has accused Eamon Ryan of sitting on a crucial report into Ireland’s electricity supply crisis for six months.
The Fianna Fáil TD’s intervention comes after the Business Post reported that some of the emergency power generators, which were meant to plug the emerging power supply gap, may not be in place in time for this winter, leading to serious concerns about Ireland’s power supply.
Last year, this newspaper revealed that Dermot McCarthy, who served as secretary general to the Taoiseach between 2000 and 2011, had been commissioned by Ryan, the Minister for the Environment, to conduct a review of the “circumstances requiring emergency measures to be introduced to secure electricity supply over the coming winters”.
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A power supply crunch has led to the need for 700MW of emergency power generators to be imported into the country to ensure Ireland does not face what the energy regulator has described as “rolling blackouts” in the years ahead.
The power crunch is the result of a confluence of factors, including large growth in energy demand, largely from data centres, which has put the country out of step with the rate of growth in electricity demand in the rest of Europe, a failure to secure enough gas-powered generation for the years ahead, and an increase in intermittent renewables in the system.
The McCarthy report into the electricity crisis was submitted to the government in February, but has still not been published six months later.
“The Government should be forced to say what its energy strategy is, what payments will come this winter, what will happen to the Irish wholesale energy market, when will we get an LNG terminal and what has happened to the report after the Government told us the failures of the sector would be investigated by former Sec General Dermot McCarthy,” Cowen said.
“That report I’m told was given to Minister Eamon Ryan last February and has remained in his office ever since without ever being published."
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The Business Post understands that the McCarthy report is due to be published alongside the government’s new energy security framework, which has been repeatedly delayed but is expected in the autumn.
Cowen also said the government should meet with the social partners as a “matter of urgency” on the impending winter energy crisis, due to continued high energy prices.
“Ireland would be better off if we allowed Brussels to run energy issues here as the state keeps failing the public on security of supply, costs and strategy. As a result we don’t have an infrastructure ready or capable to take advantage of what should be a much more competitive market with a wider range of energy sources,” Cowen said.
"The government and the social partners need to meet as a matter of urgency to plan this winter.
“There are risks of real supply shortages and further bloated prices. The social partners will need to be conscious Ireland is rapidly losing competitive advantage with consequences for jobs.
“IBEC, ICTU and other partners need to insist that the energy watch-dogs be held to account and use the teeth they have collectively as energy regulators, Eirgrid, government departments, the Competition Authority and the Competitiveness Council.
“Not one has barked or bitten,” he said.
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the elites from Trinity?
EirGrid has made a solid bollocks out of this. They’re at loggerheads all around the country as a result of their heayhanded approach to upgrading the grid and the network.
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some great points there - active travel is king
When’s chief lettuce head going to get up off his arse and allow said report before the dail??