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Started: Manyana, 27 Sep 2022 17:28
Last post: AgeingGeo, 3 Oct 2022 12:33
Amazing news today that the Danish Authorities have ordered Orsted ( the bastion of wind energy in Denmark) to fire up 3 of it's existing O&G power Stations including one coal plant to start producing electricity. I wonder where they will get their oil from? - Total perhaps after having sold Maersk to them the French could charge them a premium! Also I wonder what the 13 Green MP's in the Danish parliament are thinking now.? Looks like Ireland needs a rethink on energy policy and quickly!
"These freak stray anchor accidents or possible sharknado bites, could never ever, ever happen on the Norway to GB or GB to Ireland subsea gas pipelines" according to the all-knowing & 7.1 % of the popular vote gathering, Eamon Ryan, Minister of Blocking Everything the Country Needs & Primary Sponsor of All that we Don't Want.
Just trust me !!!!!!
Nord Stream 1 & 2 pipelines sabotaged.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63044747
Has Putin gone mad?
Started: Manyana, 23 Sep 2022 09:27
Last post: ThenShen, 24 Sep 2022 01:05
'One source said Shell was focusing its efforts on countries with more accommodating legislative frameworks'
This is a damming indictment of Ryan's department!
More criticism will be heading his way, as Ireland’s energy transition is very evidently shambolic and in complete disarray, this will send shockwaves through the energy sector, industry, international investment and beyond, as Shell are now diverting their investment towards the UK,..GL S
Exclusive: Shell withdraws from major Irish offshore wind projects
Shell, the multinational energy giant, is pulling out of the Irish renewables sector in a potentially significant blow to the country’s climate ambitions, the Business Post can reveal.
The move represents a u-turn by the company, which just last November agreed a deal to acquire a 51 per cent share in the Western Star Floating wind project off the coast of Clare from Simply Blue Group, a Cork-based energy company.
Shell’s withdrawal from the Irish renewables sector represents a potentially significant blow to Ireland’s target of achieving an 80 per cent cut in energy emissions.
Equinor, the Norwegian energy giant, confirmed last year that it was exiting the Irish market, citing frustrations with the regulatory and planning process here.
One source said Shell was focusing its efforts on countries with more accommodating legislative frameworks.
https://www.businesspost.ie/news/exclusive-shell-withdraws-from-major-irish-offshore-wind-projects/
In 2205 we'll all be dust. hehe..
Today's Irish Times:
"Ryan also needs to rethink urgently his opposition to the use of natural gas as an alternative to wind. In the short term gas will be vital to get the country through the fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and even in the longer term, when Ireland can fulfil 100 per cent of its needs from wind, gas will also be necessary as a standby source of energy on days when the wind doesn’t blow.
Last week we even had the absurd position where Ireland declined to join other EU countries in seeking to source temporary floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals as part of an effort to diversify fuel supplies amid the ongoing energy crisis because of Green Party opposition.
Ryan and his colleagues will have some explaining to do if the lights go out in the winter ahead."
Thing is, though, "in the long term" Ryan will be dust. Do you think the Greens will get a look in if we get to 2205 and the next election? Not a chance. He will be for the birds.
Started: ThenShen, 23 Sep 2022 13:09
Last post: ThenShen, 23 Sep 2022 13:09
Opposition to the windfarm off the south Dublin coast involves a lot of wealthy folk with fine houses and magnificent seaviews.Seems very similar to the opposition to our gas drilling rig on the Kish bank.In the thick of it is Boyd Barrett , our 'keep it in the ground' friend.Does this guy agree with anything?
https://irishtoday.news/the-campaign-against-a-wind-farm-off-dublins-south-coast-is-a-classic-irish-protest-movement-2-4766.html
Started: Manyana, 22 Sep 2022 20:59
Last post: Cephalo, 23 Sep 2022 00:51
Anything Ryan imports is green because he covers his eyes runs away and doesn’t look at or discuss anything inconveniently contradicting his childish ideology.
Ban on fracking lifted in the UK.
Will this mean Ryan will now refuse to import gas from Britain since it could have been "fracked"?
https://www.mailplus.co.uk/news/224829/opposing-fracking-is-for-luddites-says-rees-mogg-as-he-lifts-ban?collection=13130&&contentLayout=5pm%20Update
Started: Manyana, 21 Sep 2022 17:11
Last post: swizz, 21 Sep 2022 19:31
More from Mattie McGrath..
“I thank iar-Seanadóir Brian Ó Domhnaill, my daughter Mairéad and iar-Seanadóir John Hanafin for their help in putting the motion together. I make no apologies for the motion we have brought forward today. We will take no criticism from the Minister of State or the absent Minister who was here at the start. Why is it that he has fled like snow off a ditch when questions were being asked, especially by the rural groups, the Regional Group, ourselves and Deputy McNamara who had to return to the health committee? The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan has to answer. He made one statement - and we will check the record - that a final decision will issue on Barryroe and the application in the coming weeks. We will hold him to that because he has dithered.”
This is the transcript of Ryan’s response to Michael McGrath and I think with the current backdrop of the energy security review and energy crisis, I sense he will be more inclined to approve, which to some degree kicks the can down the road, as there are a number of other regulatory stages that he will be mindful of, a refusal would instigate immediate litigation and in light of the overwhelming evidence to support the Providence claim, this is not something that Ryan would want at this stage,…GL S
Deputy Mattie McGrath
How long is it going to take?
Deputy Eamon Ryan
These are environmental, technical and financial. The countermotion also notes that broader energy policy or energy security considerations have no bearing on the regulatory process. To answer Deputy McGrath's question, I expect it shortly, within the coming weeks.
Full transcript,..
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2022-09-21/8/
What does Ryan mean by a "final decision"?
The only decision Ryan can make is to allow the permission to develop Barryroe.
If he made any other decision, for example, to block it, Providence would sue the government under the "money order" or under the Rockhopper decision over Italy and even if Ryan continues to block Barryroe I suspect, given the name change, that Curran is lining up a court case in the event of a further delay.
"Providence v. The Irish Government" does not sound as good as "Barryroe Offshore Energy plc v The Irish Government" which would focus people's attention on the Barryroe opportunity and put the skids under Ryan.
Started: Fr.Quick, 21 Sep 2022 19:01
Last post: Fr.Quick, 21 Sep 2022 19:01
Thanks Swizz, helpful post and information. It is not being widely reported in the mainstream media, but the transcript makes it clear there are elected representatives in the Dáil literally fighting for the Barryroe licence. We cannot say nothing is being done for this.
Started: Orbilune, 21 Sep 2022 14:56
Last post: Orbilune, 21 Sep 2022 14:56
This could have been written for Ryan:
“When you shame oil and gas investors, dismantle oil and coal-fired power plants, fail to diversify energy supplies (especially gas), oppose LNG receiving terminals, and reject nuclear power, your transition plan had better be right.” - #Aramco CEO Amin Nasser
@cnbc
Started: Battle, 21 Sep 2022 14:20
Last post: Domdrew, 21 Sep 2022 14:36
Cheers !!!
Thanks to Swizz for posting this YouTube video on the other board. Mattie McGrath rural independent TD mentioned today in the Dail that Eamon Ryan said today during the debate on energy that a final decision will be made on Barryroe in the coming weeks.
https://youtu.be/X5oddUu_-mQ
“The solutions to the cost-of-living crisis will help us on climate - and vice versa. So says Ryan at a wind energy conference,straight jacket thinking that will NEVER work!
Started: Manyana, 20 Sep 2022 15:50
Last post: Manyana, 20 Sep 2022 15:50
Three items in the following RTE news link regarding Ireland's energy security with each of which can be listened to by clicking on them can be found at:
https://www.rte.ie/news/2022/0919/1324129-energy-security-review/
I suggest the third one under the heading "What should gov. be doing to protect Ireland's energy supplies?" puts paid to Ryan's madcap ideas, including the storage in Kinsale (perhaps) is the most relevant.
Started: Manyana, 20 Sep 2022 10:14
Last post: ThenShen, 20 Sep 2022 11:48
Nice legal sound to it....
I suppose they have not much else to do at present but come up with new names - at this stage they should just rename it the "Hail Mary Oil Company"!
It will be pretty hard to avoid the Barryroe name now that the company is changing its name to " Barryroe Offshore Energy plc".
Will it stick in his craw every time Ryan has to say it?
Furthermore, what will happen to EXOLA since it is the legal owner of the 80% shares in Barryroe?
Interesting that the name change was announced on the same day as the CEPA report was issued. Any method in that madness or was it a good move?
Started: donalb, 19 Sep 2022 17:26
Last post: ThenShen, 19 Sep 2022 23:20
SO BE, Alan Curran needs a counter plan to wave in front of Ryan's face . Pipedream after pipedream with this Green lot and our expense.
Does he really think farmers are going to back him with biodigestors for 15% of gas needs ?-We are so different from the Danish model.
An interconnector from Frances 70% nuclear network - exporting our carbon footprint while it was the Greens that pushed Germans away from their 22 nuclear reactors to dependence on Russian gas.
Then we have the high cost of making new networks hydrogen proof because existing metals and plastics are embrittled by that gas.
Tax and spend Eamon away with your uncompromising zealots while LNG is there for the asking .The other castrato coalition parties are now seen for what they are!
Perhaps the request for consultation might get PVR management off their rear ends and make a strong case for the renewal of the license.
I know we can expect the Half Year Results by the end of September as it was last year but perhaps they an use that to tell us then or before then what they are going to do or will it be more "wait and see"
Db, existing licenses are not being “promoted” but they are mentioned on a few occasions, although as you have pointed out and as I detailed in my brief snippet, they were not used in the CEPA modelling, due to their lack of information and what they considered there uncertainty, but that does not discount them from being a material contribution, Ryan needs to face into the reality of the precarious situation Ireland are in and get the LU granted and then it is over to Providence and Lansdowne to demonstrate what contribution Barryroe can make to the very evident gas and oil demand, …GL S
Swiss, I am just an amateur punter here & yes, if many of us here had an "ounce of sense", we could all have saved a lot of money. Anyhow, in the 1 hr that I have access to this document, I have not seen where the "existing licenses" are being promoted.
Again from Page 141/142, Additional gas reserves from existing exploration licences - Short Listed - NO
Your reference from Page 23 doesn't make me want to pop the champagne.
Can you point me to the better info?
DonalB
More crazy, no sign offs so no new gas.
Deep Corrib & Inishkea are only 12-24 months away, if signed.
Page 84 of Supply Technical Report.
Additional gas reserves from existing exploration licenses
• Possible, but unlikely, by 2025 • Possible by 2030
Shortlisted - NO
Additional domestic production of natural gas above forecasted demand could result in Ireland being
locked into a high-gas energy market.
Unknown volume of any potential additional natural gas discoveries.
Started: Manyana, 19 Sep 2022 19:10
Last post: Manyana, 19 Sep 2022 19:12
Obviously "Barryrow" a typo and should be "Barryroe".
What we need to do is to submit a message to the consultation email address saying "Renew the license agreement to allow Providence to develop Barryrow".
As it says: Submissions should be sent by email to energyconsultation@decc.gov.ie before 28th of October.
Since it will have to publish the submissions they will have to put the request in the report.
Started: donalb, 19 Sep 2022 17:11
Last post: donalb, 19 Sep 2022 17:11
Started: Manyana, 19 Sep 2022 12:21
Last post: ThenShen, 19 Sep 2022 13:39
CEPA, yet another inconvenient truth for our Eamon.
Energy report to be published later today.
I wonder how "independent" it will be or will it be more Ryan fudge?
https://www.midwestradio.ie/index.php/news/60966-report-on-ireland-s-energy-security-will-be-published-later
Started: Manyana, 18 Sep 2022 18:26
Last post: Manyana, 18 Sep 2022 18:26
Ireland fails to apply for funding from EU
https://gript.ie/ireland-one-of-just-two-countries-that-failed-to-apply-for-european-funding-energy-initiative/
According to the report Ireland missed out on The biomethane section of REPowerEU which has a budget of €35bn. Ireland’s potential funding from that budget is estimated at €800m in capital funding, along with a further €1.3bn in future supports."
Are we so rich that we can miss out on such largesse or is it more of Ryan's head stuck up his rear end?
Started: Flombo10, 18 Sep 2022 12:15
Last post: Manyana, 18 Sep 2022 17:47
Report does not come cheap.
Here is a report on the costs Ryan had to give following a question .
"The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, has confirmed to Independent TD for Laois Offaly, Carol Nolan, that the report on the review of Ireland’s energy security will be published before the end of 2022."
So now the report has been escalated from the end of the year to tomorrow which is quite a leap. Was this because Ryan was under pressure to get it out?
So it seems it will now be published tomorrow but it has been a very expensive exercise as can be seen from the following.
https://gript.ie/cost-of-report-on-irelands-energy-security-has-reached-e170000/
I see he has a article in today's Irish Independent. As minister he gets to set the narrative which is the war in Ukraine has exposed the unreliably of fossil fuels and renewables are the way forward. Interesting to note that the was a meeting of European energy ministers in Dublin were they stated that they will try to build 85% of all of Europe's offshore wind capacity by 2030 and by 2050 they will have 100% offshore wind capacity by 2050. This full offshore wind capacity will provide 10% of Europe's energy needs! Where is the remaining 90% coming from? The Green Party speaks about a transition to renewables. That's not actually true. There is no transaction. There is a move to include renewable energy as part of the energy sector by 2050. Another minister would have written an article stating that nuclear and oil and gas will provide the big percentage of energy while also backing up the renewable energy sources
Energy security report to be published tomorrow, according to eamon ryan
Started: Manyana, 17 Sep 2022 18:36
Last post: Manyana, 17 Sep 2022 18:36
Norway's hydroelectric is running low so could cut off gas supply to UK as it is needed domestically.
What happens to Ireland if that occurs? Another nail in Ryan's great plans?
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1669600/norway-first-panic-uk-energy-crisis-biggest-exporter-facing-pressure-cut-off-gas-protests
Started: Manyana, 15 Sep 2022 09:32
Last post: ThenShen, 15 Sep 2022 14:55
No straight line between A and B with this lot. Tax and spend amateurs in charge of our energy security! Just like promoting years away hydrogen , they'll come up with some pie in the sky idealised square to fit in a round hole! Wasters!
"But it seems Ireland thought it was going to get about €2billion from the levy on oil companies..."
Under the EU's marginal pricing scheme for electricity, the price paid to wind energy providers is the highest bid at any given time and is set by the price of gas. They're the ones that should be paying a windfall tax. Will we see Ryan scapegoat them as much as the fossil fuel companies?
Review next week according to Ryan's spokeswoman, not this week as "planned". Delayed probably due to disagreements between parties and Ryan.
"The Irish Times asked a spokeswoman for Minister for the Environment and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan if he would allow the use of LNG or FSRUs if recommended by the review. She said the energy review will be published next week and “it’s best to wait until then for further detail on the paper in the round and on the options that it may contain”.
Confusion reigns supreme.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2022/09/15/government-left-with-jam-on-its-face-after-eu-over-promises-and-under-delivers/
"Not for the first time, the Government been left with jam on its face after the EU over promised and under-delivered. Over the past week, senior Irish politicians, including Eamon Ryan, were saying a windfall tax on energy companies in Europe, plus a price cap, would be worth €140 billion to the EU States, and possibly €2 billion to Ireland."
But it seems Ireland thought it was going to get about €2billion from the levy on oil companies but it now appears the windfall tax will only be paid where it is collected and where the oil and gas are produced.
Since Ireland does not produce any of its own, other than a dribble from Corrib which is tax free anyway, it will get dolly squat.
One in the eye for Ryan and the Irish Government, I am afraid - not.
Started: Battle, 14 Sep 2022 16:18
Last post: Battle, 14 Sep 2022 16:18
As Swizz pointed out on the other board Sean Kelly spelling it out in black and white
https://twitter.com/SeanKellyMEP/status/1570015857987784704?t=5eEvVxX3WtbsHcsFsYmxrA&s=19
Started: Manyana, 14 Sep 2022 10:23
Last post: Manyana, 14 Sep 2022 10:23
"The Cabinet is meeting this morning, with a packed agenda. Already we know some of what will be decided. Green Party leader and Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications Eamon Ryan will publish a consultation paper on energy security (including suggestions on the controversial topic of storing liquefied natural gas)."
Will Ryan get his way or will his disagreements with Varadkar on LNG for storage be decided on his terms or will he be put back in his box? Hopefully the box.
So is it today when we will hear his solution to Ireland's energy problems?
Started: Manyana, 12 Sep 2022 17:21
Last post: ps200306, 14 Sep 2022 02:33
Not sure what Curran can do other than commence legal proceedings against the government. Ryan is being dragged kicking and screaming toward allowing limited gas storage under the government's tight control, but no LNG imports. The chances of him voluntarily signing off on licences for Inishkea or Barryroe are less than zero, as he is implacably opposed to them. He will just state that they are incompatible with Ireland's climate change targets (like he did for the LNG terminal).
I’ve heard that the new CEO is working very hard and has been very active. What I am hearing is that he is getting under the bonnet as it were as well as meeting with partner companies. The half year results are normally at the end of Q3 and it’s a fair expectation to believe that we will hear publicly from Mr Curran by the end of this month
Providence announced Alan Curran as Providence's acting CEO on 4th July and yet we haven't heard a word from him. Has he got cold feet and run away, by any chance, and they haven't told us?
Has anybody heard what the situation is or is he just taking a big fat salary as he sits on his rear end?
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2022/07/04/providence-names-scottish-based-oil-veteran-as-interim-ceo/
Anybody know anything?
Started: Domdrew, 12 Sep 2022 17:26
Last post: Domdrew, 12 Sep 2022 17:26
Energy Security Report out by end of week ..E R just mentioned it at a press conference in Dublin ...
Started: Manyana, 12 Sep 2022 17:15
Last post: Manyana, 12 Sep 2022 17:15
Ryan, at a meeting of the North Seas Energy Cooperation (NSEC) and the the European Commission today contradicts some of the statements made with Varadkar.
He did say the "consultant’s study on energy storage options would be delivered this week. It will look not just at gas but also at other forms of storage, such as battery, he said."
And he reiterated the state owning the storage solution but he kiboshed "fracked gas" saying as follows:
"He said that in terms of gas storage, the direction would be towards the State managing the storage rather than private companies. Sources also said that the gas stored would be existing forms of natural gas, from the Corrib field and also from the UK. It will not include fracked gas, nor will there be a need for a facility to process it. A proposed LNG terminal on the Shannon Estuary has been fiercely opposed by leading Green Party representatives."
So, the Greens have obviously got to him since his joint statement with Varadkar where "fracked" gas was part of the solution.
Less than a week before we know who and what is going to "store" all that gas we need for supply and backup and since Corrib produces only 67% of Ireland's gas needs where will it get the gas to put into "storage"?
Started: Manyana, 12 Sep 2022 13:08
Last post: Manyana, 12 Sep 2022 13:08
It seems Varadkar and Ryan were on Morning Ireland and it seems the opposition to LNG and storage were now regarded as "the sensible thing to do".
So, is it a rock and a hard place for Ryan of either LNG or indigenous supply?
Quote:
"Earlier, the Tánaiste said it “makes sense” for Ireland to have liquified natural gas (LNG) storage and the Environment Minster Eamon Ryan will bring forward storage proposals in the coming weeks.
It comes as Minister Ryan and the Green Party have strongly rejected proposals to install an LNG terminal at Shannon Airport.
Mr Varadkar said Ireland is fortunate to have “good energy security” via the Corrib gas fields and the pipeline from the UK and Norway, but adding storage is the “sensible” thing to do. “So, to me it makes sense that we should have LNG energy storage. How you do that is a matter for debate, but Minister Ryan will be bringing forward proposals in the next couple weeks as to how we can achieve that."
Not only that, but Ryan is proposing an Irish storage facility owned by the country. We will be told, they tell us, in the next week or so.
Is Ryan finally being told what to do rather than making up policy on the fly?
We will wait for his suggestions as to how he is going to implement his "storage strategy".
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/energy-crisis-eamon-ryan-to-present-lng-storage-proposals-in-coming-weeks-as-eu-ministers-meet-today-on-emergency-plan/ar-AA11Djx5