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Irish oil exploration ban remains contradictory and illogical - oilandgas360

David Horgan: Irish oil exploration ban remains contradictory and illogical

BreakingNews.IE Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s oil exploration ban will drive Irish emissions yet higherand with higher imports will only serve to undermine energy security. The political process has effectively been taken over by social media as panicked politicians virtue-signal even when their policies are counterproductive. Ireland needs about 6GW to meet power demand at peak times and new data centres could add another 2GW of power