Greens urge switch to renewable energy to combat fuel costs

IRELAND needs to switch over to 100% renewable energy within 50 years to avoid spiralling fuel costs and combat global climate change, the Green Party said yesterday.

At the launch of ‘Let’s Make the Switch’, which comes at the beginning of Energy Awareness Week, Green Party TDs and councillors said people were now paying the price for the Government’s failure to invest in alternatives to fossil fuels.

“We in the Green Party are the only party taking the whole issue of energy and the future in this country seriously,” Green Party leader Trevor Sargent said.