Eamon Ryan has accepted the developments but says it won't be our future in the long-term
Green party chief Eamon Ryan has accepted that Ireland will be using nuclear power imported from France.The Greens have historically been vehemently opposed to nuclear energy and have campaigned strongly against it throughout their political history.However, the current leader has no qualms about accepting energy supply produced by nuclear power stations which will flow through the new Celtic Interconnector.
Mr Ryan said: “In that very significant new development, a bridge to France we're building - a fibre optic and electric cable bridge to France, there will be nuclear energy coming through. “That's already happening in the UK interconnectors - so you can't differentiate electrons.“If you look at the latest statistics, half of the new generation in the world is in solar panels - that's this year, across the world.
“We're going to put solar panels on every single school start and you're seeing 44,000 houses already, but that's going to massively multiply and accelerate.
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