Government needs to act over failure to cut greenhouse gasses

THE Government’s Green Paper on Energy Policy in Ireland, which is out to public consultation until the end of July, reads like a manuscript from the past discovered during an archaeological dig.

Who is this Minister Rabbitte smiling up from the introduction of a document which talks about “transforming Ireland into one of the most energy efficient economies in Europe by 2020?”

As Rabbitte himself prepares to hop to another hutch, many of the claims of the energy paper have already been discredited. The “National Low Carbon Roadmap” which is meant to magically reduce Ireland’s carbon emissions by 80% to 95% by 2050 is years off schedule and will seemingly have no targets except for 2050 when everyone in positions of power in this government may be dead and gone.