Category: Energy

Paris Agreement: €30bn Cost for Ireland.

The Paris Agreement will cost Ireland more than €30bn. Although the Attorney General advised the Government that it is necessary to have an indication of the overall costs of complying with the Paris Agreement on climate change prior to Oireacthtas ratification… Continue reading

Ireland’s Energy Policy 2008

Getting Ireland’s Energy Policy Right

Mr Gladstone, when accused of changing his mind responded ‘When the facts change I change my mind; what do you do sir?’

The facts, economic, geopolitical, environmental and technological have been changing rapidly in the … Continue reading

Irish Energy Policy, MacGill Summer School

Irish Energy Policy: Reason v Emotion                                   

Edward M Walsh

MacGill Summer School & Arts Week

Glenties, Co Donegal

17 July 2007

‘Opposition to nuclear energy is based on irrational fear fed by Hollywood-style fiction, the Green lobbies and the media. Continue reading

Ireland’s Energy Policy 2007

Energy White Paper

Minister Noel Dempsey and his team can take credit for a number of desirable initiatives announced in the Energy White Paper and for having the courage to shake things up…just a little.

Welcome plans for reform of … Continue reading

The Nuclear Energy Option

Dr. Edward Walsh, founding president of the University of Limerick and former director of an energy research laboratory in the US, looks at Ireland’s energy position

Russia’s decision last Christmas to teach the Ukraine a lesson, by attempting to cut … Continue reading

Ireland’s Energy Policy: 2006

Irish Energy Policy: Reason v Emotion

‘Opposition to nuclear energy is based on irrational fear fed by Hollywood-style fiction, the Green lobbies and the media. These fears are unjustified, and nuclear energy from its start in 1952 has proved to Continue reading