The People Before Profit TD, Brid Smith, has announced that she is seeking cross-party support for a Dail motion to reject an EU proposal to label gas and nuclear as green energy.
“The EU Commissioner, Mairead McGuiness, was strongly lobbied by corporate interests to label gas and nuclear as ‘green energy’.
“This makes a mockery of the EU’s claim to be a world leader in measures to avert climate change. Gas is a fossil fuel that will increase carbon emissions while nuclear energy leaves behind waste that does not decay for centuries.
“How can any serious politician pretend these are part of a sustainable agenda – unless they are practicing for a comedy routine?
“The EU Commission will need to garner support from national governments for this absurd move as it will have to be agreed at the EU Council.
“I will be moving a resolution in the Dail to declare Ireland’s outright opposition to this plan – as other countries have done.
‘’The Green Party will have to decide whether it wishes to join its coalition partners in rank hypocrisy or stand by its verbal opposition to climate change.”
