Strain on electricity supply not only factor
Until June 16th.
You might say, “but John, that was a once in a hundred year storm, there’s nothing Government could have done”. The problem is, this simply isn’t true.
Ireland has an ideal coastline for offshore wind farms and yet we have the most expensive electricity in Europe. How is that?
History isn’t over.
“The IFA have offered a number of serious, credible and proportionate amendments to this Bill, but they have all been dismissed.”
“We are living through a great upheaval.”
Yesterday, parts of the country were flooded as heavy rain and thunderstorms marked the end of a short heatwave which left the ground parched. A clever video from the University of Reading shows that it takes much longer for water to soak into parched ground, “illustrating why heavy rainfall after a drought can be dangerous […]
Irish Water, while we’re on the subject, are very proud of their own performance. At least, if we judge it on the bonuses paid out for performance last year:
As more than 600,000 people in Dublin, Kildare and Meath face at least another four days without domestic drinking water we can apparently look forward to this becoming a regular occurrence. Apart from illustrating once more the disaster that is Irish Water, it is perhaps a timely forewarning of what is coming down the tracks […]