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by JansjoFromIkea
99 days ago
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I do often wonder with this kind of thing whether an unspoken aspect of it is about not depleting the country's fossil fuels From what I understand Ireland has very little natural gas, very little coal and a not particularly large amount of peat. If they didn't shift towards importing all of that would be gone in the very near future. It's a bit weird how it gets branded as a solely green move when there's clearly other motives for it. |
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For practical purposes no coal. There are no working coal mines in Ireland, and Moneypoint would have run entirely on imported coal since it was built. It was built with a bulk handling terminal for this purpose (very visible in photos of the plant: https://esb.ie/news---insights/inside-esb/moneypoint-power-s...).
Note that it doesn't have a rail link; even if there had been the desire to use domestic coal and someone had gotten a mine going, there would have been no way to get it there.