Ahern and Dempsey to launch energy policy

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Monday March 12, 2007 09:04

by policy watcher

The Govt will launch their delayed white paper on energy today.

It will seek to explain how it makes economic sense to simply give away billions of euro worth of natural gas to the big energy companies.

Note to Noel Dempsey: When they say the policy is good for the economy, it's supposed to be the IRISH economy, not the Norwegian one.

Govt Policy on Natural Resources

Govt to publish White Paper on Energy
Monday, 12 March 2007 08:54

The Government is to publish its overdue White Paper on Energy today against a backdrop of concern over oil prices and new demands for action on climate change.

The document will be launched by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, and the Minister for Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey.

The Green Party has already said it does not believe Government plans will come anywhere close to ensuring the country abides by tough new EU emissions targets.
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Ireland imports around 90% of its energy and these fossil fuels like oil and coal have contributed to its greenhouse gas emissions being twice as high as they should be.

The country's demand for energy is projected to increase by 30% by 2020. However last Friday, the EU agreed to binding cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of 20%.

Today's White Paper aims to provide security of supply, a competitive price and be environmentally friendly.

It is known the Government wants a third of Ireland's electricity to come from renewable sources by 2020.

Minister Dempsey will have to explain how his plan will ensure Ireland abides by the new EU emissions cutting targets, when it is already way above its old Kyoto limit and has had to spend hundreds of millions on carbon credits as a result.

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Where and when?

by Interested

Mon Mar 12, 2007 09:07

If this launch is at a publicly accesible venue such as a hotel please tell us where and what time.

blame the right people

by Jasper

Mon Mar 12, 2007 09:13

With all the teeth-gnashing, people have somehow mistakenly decided that Dempsey et al are at fault for ireland getting no share of our offshore resources.

The blame lies, almost solely, at the feet of Ray Burke.

Dempsey the hypocrite

by M. Ni Bhrolchain - Campaign to Save Tara

Mon Mar 12, 2007 09:26

It would be funny if it were not sad to watch Minister Dempsey posturing on this issue.
This is the man who says he loves Tara but finds no problem with having a motorway through the landscape and a massive interchange 1500m from the top of the hill. This is the man who was the Minister for the Environment when the change from upgrade of the N3 was changed to a 6-lane, twice tolled motorway. Of course you can't toll an existing road.
Also the man responsible for the voting machines and that waste of money as well.
What a record!

Dempsey

by c

Mon Mar 12, 2007 09:55

Dempsey started as Minister for State in Environment.
Cullen was on the voting machine debacle.
Historically :- Dempsey will be remembered for:

The Laffoy Commission: he was cited by Ms Justice Laffoy as obstructive when
she headed up the abuse enquiry and of course for Rossport, Erris and environs.

He is busily bringing mass-market sponsorship into Meath on a pilot scheme of
telly stuff- wherin the analog telly will be phased out in favour of more wall to wall
pap and cultural candy . 1000 people are taking part in the television pilot scheme.

Burke V Dempsey

by cool j

Mon Mar 12, 2007 19:47

Jasper - While it is true Burke was the instagator of the oil and gas giveaway, Dempsey is guilty of extending its influence over vast new areas of our territorial waters by his actions last November during a three days get together in the Burlington at which Statoil, Shell and other oil multinationals were once again indulged at the expense of ordinary irish citizens and tax-payers

cool j

Tue Mar 13, 2007 13:05

Was Burke not solely responsible for removing the automatic 50% right to any commercial oil/gas well and 6-7% royalties?

talk to the man

by chrissie

Fri Mar 16, 2007 19:51

You can easily find what kind of man Dempsey is, by trying to communicate with him - which I wd urge all protestors to do, citing all the issues wherein he & the Gov't are failing the electorate.

FF emissions

by C Murray

Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:09

Did anyone see the coverage of the FF conference-

They have recognised green problems and carbon footprints......................

Bertie made an effort alright, the cost of the government jet emissions will be offset by donations to
green and sustainable causes (!) and the State is to get rid of lightbulbs and replace them with
energy saving ones (!)

The audience was rather old and rather grey so Bertie stayed away from the re-cycled toilet-paper
issue for fear of ruffling the genteel feathers and sullying the pearls round the well- jowly necks.

Oh Kyoto is on the menu two months before the election.
along with:-
Bigger roads.
faster cars.
no public transport.
nuclear energy.
shell to sea.
Tara.

and every other flagrant breach of EU directive on Environment- including the fact that the republic's
water supplies are in the shite- with 79 people in galway getting bugs.

It was the kind of comedy you would pay good money to see- and most of the delegates have.
Jayzhus, theres an environmental problem whose greener SF or the Greens?

Emissions and omissions.

by maire

Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:42

Please add to the list the burning of our resources in incinerators, and the buying of credits to offset the co2 emissions. How Green is our Valley.

we could go back

Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:56

The state sold our only recycling glassworks to benefit their crony friends.(ringsend)
They are ripping up Tara to benefit their crony friends.
They put 16 young people in prison for pointing out the shite that happened in the Glen of the Downs.
4 of them stayed in for six weeks - without charge. They were isolated by media and political movements.

Does anyone truly believe that the use of isolation, imprisonment and abuse of activists began
in RTS or Rossport?

The precedence was Wood Quay and the Glen Of the Downs.

The opposition , particulary Rabbitte and Kenny, who have Mayo seats have failed to engage with
their communities on Rossport- on corruption and environmental devastation.

They have failed in Meath.

Bertie is laughable- a fecking chancer with the light bulbs and jet emmissions- but the opposition had
multiple chances to excerise mandate- they were abysmal- flaccid and impotent.

On September the tenth 2001- the irish government was fined for breach of habitat directive
in relation to the nature reserve at the glen of the Downs. They are being threatened by EU
over unsafe drinking water in Galway. they shovel the shite and expect us to clean up.
it has dominated FF- laissez faire- let it be. FF don't give tuppence for the electorate- it is beyond arrogance!

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