Pat Rabitte: If Leo Varadkar is right and the economy takes off ‘like a rocket’ we are at risk of an energy crisis
We need to mitigate the climate crisis but that cannot mean leaving Ireland without a secure source of energy
Leo Varadkar thinks that, following the lifting of restrictions, “the economy will take off like a rocket”. Let’s hope the Tánaiste is right. And if he proves to be right, care would need to be taken that we don’t sleepwalk into an energy crisis.
The decommissioning of power stations, the voracious appetite of big data centres for energy, the end of the Kinsale gas field, the climate-proofing of energy activity, the new piety about a ...
