Barryroe energy drilling license rejection

[JoeRoberts]

I'm not sure how long is it since we were told to stop extracting fossil fuels or investing in new infrastructure for same.

We can never stop.
The % can be reduced but in an expanding world it may mean a similar absolute value.

 

[arbitron]

Every single Green Party TD ever elected in Ireland would fit in one minibus. They are a tiny party. The PDs were bigger.

It must be very satisfying for Eamonn and friends to see people still enraged that the Greens were so successful at getting their manifesto pledges over the line...

Anyway, Barryroe is a weak case that differs from Rockhopper in several important ways, but even if it did succeed in arbitration it's unlikely they would get more than 20% of their claim.

 

[Purple]

Pushing back against the destruction of liveable planet because of climate change is perhaps an ideology we could get behind, no? I would suggest there's quite the imperative to do so.

If they were genuinely interested in a solution they would be pushing for massive changed in farming and what we eat. That's a way bigger problem that fossil fuels.

 

[Purple]

We can never stop.
The % can be reduced but in an expanding world it may mean a similar absolute value.

Not if we invest in renewables like wind, solar and most importantly, Nuclear. Again, the ideology of the Greens gets in the way of an actual solution.

 

[JoeRoberts]

Not if we invest in renewables like wind, solar and most importantly, Nuclear.

All needed to meet the ever rising demand for electricity across the world. Which will decrease the ff %. But all the available ff will still be used.

 

[Purple]

All needed to meet the ever rising demand for electricity across the world. Which will decrease the ff %. But all the available ff will still be used.

Possibly. We'll still need it for plastics as I presume people will still want their artificial hips, cardiovascular Stents, Contact Lenses, Pacemakers, Eye-glasses, and all of the other tens of thousands of things that we make from Petroleum.

We won't need to burn them to make heat and move things and that accounts for 85-90% of our consumption at the moment. That doesn't require any scientific breakthroughs, it requires the political will to adopt existing economically viable technology. In our case that's Nuclear and more Wind and Solar but without the Nuclear bit we'll never go below 40% Fossil Fuel usage for power generation.

None of that changes the fact that we'll still need to Fossil Fuels for power generation for the next few decades and so securing our own local supply is a strategic economic imperative.

 

[Ravima]

Inndeed we do neet to invest in solar/wind/wave etc, but until such time as we have enough reliable capacity, we need fossil fuels. We also need to consider the solar/wind/wave technology. Are we simply allowing slavery in China and Africa to mine the stuff for batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines? Much of the material in these is petrochemical based.

Ireland has Oil and it is a shame to simply let it there, when it could be assisting in this time of climate and fuel emergency.

And we can't mention Nuclear, save for the fact that we import electricity generated by Nuclear from UK and France, but perish the thought that we would generate our own nuclear power!!