Mick Clifford: State playing into the wind on climate change

Mick Clifford wonders if one of the ostensibly more straightforward and uncontentious elements of the climate action plan can be scuppered by a lack of resources, what hope for the rest?

The Irish Examiner understands the ESB were informed of the decision by Equinor to exit three weeks ago. Why keep everybody in the dark if it didn’t matter?

The rubber officially hit the road yesterday. Now that the climate action plan has been launched, it’s time to get cracking with the action bit. 

Some of this will be painful at different levels of society, but one area that should be straightforward is the generation of electricity through off-shore wind energy. Except it isn’t.