Nuclear energy is our only option

IT should be obvious that Ireland is facing an energy crisis. Energy demand for transport is growing at 8% a year; world oil and gas reserves are declining at 2% or 3% a year against an exponential growth in energy demand.

Without indigenous fossil fuel sources, we are heading for disaster. And what is the Government’s answer? The construction of peat-burning power stations creating pollution, acid rain, global warming and turning peatland habitat into a lunar landscape.

Nor can subsidising motorists to burn biofuel change the scientific fact that there is simply not enough arable land and that huge amounts of energy, currently derived from fossil fuels, are needed to produce biofuels.