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Bow down to our new master. Putin puts the pressure on Europe with his control of gas.
Today's headline:
"Putin sparks panic in Germany over natural gas blackmail fears: 'Houses will stay cold!'"
If Germany is worried about Russian gas which has built a big gas pipeline into that country, Nord Stream, what about the rest of us?
If we have a cold hard winter with problems of gas supply as well as the huge increase in wholesale gas prices which will be passed on to consumers what chances Barryroe gets the go ahead very soon?
I think Ryan and Smith are being backed into a corner faster than you can say "up yours".
Great post about the closure of railways. I'm an old Network Rail man and fully agree with you what a f $$kup this was
Perhaps there is some method to the ongoing silence, as it is looking extremely bleak for industry and consumers,..GL S
“Europe Faces Bleak Winter Energy Crisis Years in the Making”
“It could get very ugly unless we act quickly,” Snam CEO says
“Green push has meant years of underinvestment in fossil fuels”
“Faced with surging gas and electricity prices, countries from the U.K. to Germany will need to count on mild temperatures to get through the heating season. Europe is short of gas and coal and if the wind doesn’t blow, the worst-case scenario could play out: widespread blackouts that force businesses and factories to shut.”
hTTps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-18/europe-faces-bleak-winter-energy-crisis-years-in-the-making
We won't need Providence if Ryan gets his way and we have to all go back to riding bicycles and the other suggestion that country people don't need lights but can use torches to get home at night in villages and towns when he gets the street lights turned off. And yes, we must stop those data centres being built in Ireland. And perhaps farmers should go back to hand milking cows and not use electric automated milkers and not sterilise the milk. Hopefully, he would get a dose of brucellosis which is just about as bad as Mad Cow Disease.
And I like his suggestion of having a rail link all the way to Derry from Cork. How long does he think it will take to travel that far and who in their right mind would want to travel from Cork to Derry by train? And if he is so keen on railways how about resurrecting the Achill line which was abandoned years ago and is now a cycle path for tourists.
The more scatterbrained schemes he comes up with the more people will realise what an absolute fool the man is. And how about the West Clare Railway closed in 1961. Brendan O'Dowda would turn in his grave if that was resurrected because it is the famous song "Are you right there, Michael, are you right?" which was written about that one.
Interesting link which shows how Ireland's rail network has reduced from 2025. Perhaps Ryan would like to resurrect all of these that have disappeared. The graphic in the following shows the demise.
https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/cahirodoherty/losing-irelands-railway-networks-to-partition-was-a-giant-mistake
I think Linn is playing a crafty game. The worse the problem becomes with fracked gas, shortages creating spiraling costs and Russia curbing gas supplies, Germany now in dire straits of blackouts, England being in danger of blackouts from power stations being switched off the better the case for developing Barryroe.
And it is interesting that the "naughty" gas CO2 is also now a shortage for the meat trade and other industries. I didn't realise it was used to stun cattle before they are killed in abattoirs. I thought we had too much of the stuff but it seems it is in short supply.
So gas and power are already more expensive than a year ago by a factor of four or five in the UK. They have just lost a gigawatt of interconnector capacity to France until next March due to a fire. Gas supply over the winter is looking extremely tight even if Putin doesn't intentionally mess Europe around. More coal is being brought back online just in time for COP26.
Ireland can expect to be squeezed even harder, relying on the UK for an increasing amount of its gas supply. It has its own power capacity problems. And the 500 MW East-West interconnector won't save us when the wind doesn't blow. The average punter probably thinks it can be turned on like a light switch when we need it. In fact, electricity flows either direction depending on who is willing to pay the most for it. Domestic suppliers in Ireland will have to bid against a power-starved UK, even for Irish wind power. That's how integrated markets work.
Big Wind will be laughing all the way to the bank. When the wind blows they have ready customers at premium prices. When it doesnt, well ... not their problem. And Sleepy Ryan wants to make us a lot more dependent on them over the next few years.
PART OF A LETTER I HAVE RECEIVED FROM MY SERVICE PROVIDER
To put this in some perspective, prices in the UK have recently hit over 157 pence per therm compared to less than 30 pence per therm one year ago. Power prices closely follow the gas price and have climbed to an unprecedented level of over £540 per MwH. This is more than four times their normal level over the past decade. This has meant that National Grid have asked coal-fired power stations to switch on to help manage demand.