Between a rock and a hard place.
Rights or modern luxuries?
Ben Scallan asks Green Minister Catherine Martin if her party takes responsibility for Ireland’s energy crisis. She replies that the energy crisis is “not the time” to abandon green policies:
Critical infrastructure.
BEN SCALLAN: Despite alarm bells about the energy crisis already being sounded, the government decided to put up the tax on certain kinds of candles earlier this year, making life that much harder in the event of potential blackouts this winter:
Where did money go?
Saying “I told you so” is a rather unpleasant trait in a person, but there are times when it cannot be avoided. Last week, on these pages, I wrote that: the Government can live with electricity blackouts if they only affect the hapless citizenry. Such blackouts can be blamed on other factors: Maintenance. The need […]
The Green Party believe that the world is facing an existential crisis because people are burning too many fossil fuels. In order to save the world, they say, we must (their words) “keep it in the ground”. They want us to use less energy and electricity. They want us to become “more efficient”. In the […]