At a Time of Climate Crisis: Sunk costs in fossil fuel infrastructure could sink us

The greatest cost of new fossil fuel projects may be the missed opportunity to build clean energy

In this month’s column for the Irish Times MaREI researcher Dr Hannah Daly, University College Cork, Hannah examines the plan to construct new fossil fuel infrastructure – justified on the basis of energy security – in light of the lack of a clear, legally grounded plan for how fossil fuels will be phased out, and how state bodies will be held accountable for that trajectory. Without such an enforceable plan, the promise of clean energy remains undermined.

“Where the barriers to LNG imports are being lifted, and where fossil fuel demand from data centres is enabled rather than constrained, it is hard to maintain the pretence that new gas infrastructure will be used only as backup”

Read the full article here.