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Resource Documents: Ireland (25 items)
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KLADEA documents on wind turbine impacts
Author: Schorn, Brigitte
Wind Energy is not free, clean and green energy, as we have been led to believe. The minimal electricity contribution from wind turbines comes at a huge cost not just in financial terms, but also in terms of the immeasurable irreversible damage this industry does to: People’s Health and Quality of Life (see all reports) Wildlife (see Ireland and UK report) Our environment (see all reports) Property prices (see all reports) Tourism (see Germany report) From our extensive research conducted . . .
More »Windfarm Developments on Blanket Bog
Author: Phillips, John
A cautionary tale from Derrybrien, Co Galway, and pointers for safeguards needed when similar developments are proposed for the United Kingdom – A substantial bogslide took place at Hibernian Wind Power’s 71-tower wind farm at Derrybrien, Co Galway on 16 October 2003 when nearly half a million tonnes of peat, boulder clay and vegetation slumped from an area of felled plantation forest. Two weeks later, following heavy rainfall, a stream in spate churned the peat into a mobile slurry and . . .
More »Politics of Peat
Author: Scottish Wind Assessment Project (SWAP)
Lessons from the Derrybrien landslide One of Ireland’s largest wind-power sites is the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) scheme on Cashlaundrumlahan, the highest, at 368m, of the Slieve Aughty Mountains in Co Galway. A 71-turbine, 60 MW project built on 850 acres of blanket bog, it lies about a kilometre north of Derrybrien, near Gort. … Three months into the project, on October 16 [2003], about half a million tonnes of bog began to slide from a turbine base on the south of . . .
More »Wind energy planning guidelines
Author: Irish Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government
These guidelines from Ireland outline the very many impacts to be considered in siting a wind power facility. Their recommendation for noise limits at neighboring residences is 5 dB(A) above the ambient level, or where the ambient level is below 30 dB(A) an absolute limit of 35-40 db(A). They suggest the limits be much lower at night. Download original document: “Wind energy planning guidelines”
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