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These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch in its noncommercial educational effort to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions of National Wind Watch. They are the products of and owned by the organizations or individuals noted and are shared here according to “fair use” and “fair dealing” provisions of copyright law.


April 9, 2021 • Northern IrelandPrint storyE-mail story

Department defends 500ft windfarm in protected Area of Outstanding Beauty

The department in charge of planning has defended the idea of building nearly a dozen 500-foot-high wind turbines within a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Minister Nichola Mallon had given “careful consideration” to the plans before they were approved last month, the Department of Infrastructure has told the News Letter. It is the latest example of a large-scale windfarm being built either in or close to an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Northern Ireland has eight AONB – . . . Complete story »


April 2, 2021 • Northern IrelandPrint storyE-mail story

Knock Iveagh: Council takes legal action over wind turbine

A council is taking legal action against a Stormont department for refusing to order the removal of a wind turbine beside an historic monument. Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council has lodged papers in the High Court citing the Infrastructure Department. In November it asked Infrastructure to use its powers to force the removal of the controversial turbine. The turbine is beside a 5,000 year-old Neolithic burial site which is a scheduled historic monument. The council said the turbine was having . . . Complete story »


March 17, 2021 • Northern IrelandPrint storyE-mail story

Planning permission granted for north-west wind farm

Northern Ireland’s Infrastructure Minister, Nichola Mallon has today (March 16) announced her decision to grant planning permission for a wind farm in the north-west. The application for Corlacky Wind Farm was submitted in May 2016, and came before the minister as a ‘regionally significant’ development. The decision to grant permission follows careful consideration of the Planning Appeals Commission report on the hearing which was held in October 2019 and is in line with the commission’s recommendation to approve the proposal. . . . Complete story »


March 8, 2021 • Northern IrelandPrint storyE-mail story

Green energy: Options for doubling renewable energy on NI’s power grid

The operator of NI’s electricity network has suggested four options for doubling the amount of renewable power on the grid. SONI said the network needs investment in the hundreds of millions to cope with increased demand for green energy as NI tries to hit carbon targets. The demand is likely to be driven by much higher uptake of electric vehicles and the electrification of heat. The cost of the investment will be paid through customers’ electricity bills. One of the . . . Complete story »


January 28, 2021 • Ireland, Northern Ireland, Print storyE-mail story

Criminal investigation launched into north-west landslide

A criminal investigation has been launched into a devastating landslide which transformed a natural beauty spot in the north-west into a murky “black porridge”. Shocking footage of the incident in Mid-November was viewed by thousands online as it showed thousands of tonnes of peat slipping downstream from the top end of the Mourne Beg River in Donegal. John McCartney, director of conservation and protection at the Loughs Agency, told the Stormont Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee on Thursday (January . . . Complete story »


January 22, 2021 • Ireland, Northern Ireland, Print storyE-mail story

Stormont committee told river peat slide was ‘catastrophic’

A huge landslide into rivers in Donegal and Tyrone which started on the site of a new windfarm has been described as “catastrophic” by the Loughs’ Agency. Thousands of tonnes of peat bog, trees and vegetation were swept into the Mourne Beg and Derg Rivers during the peat slide on November 13 last year. Damage was also caused to the Corgary trout farm. It subsequently emerged that the peat slide originated on land which is being developed as a wind . . . Complete story »


January 20, 2021 • Northern IrelandPrint storyE-mail story

Knock Iveagh turbine £1m shock

The ABC Council could face a compensation bill of well over £1m, after the Department of Infrastructure said it would not oversee – and pay for – the removal of a wind turbine at the ancient Knock Iveagh site, near Rathfriland. The Department for Infrastructure said it would not pick up the cost of fixing a procedural planning mistake for which the now-defunct Department of the Environment is responsible. The hill at Knock Iveagh, which is home to a stone-age . . . Complete story »


January 19, 2021 • Northern IrelandPrint storyE-mail story

Council consider its options as Department refuses to intervene to remove wind turbine from Knock Iveagh

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council is “currently reviewing” the Department of Infrastructure’s correspondence with regards to a wind turbine built on an ancient burial ground. In December, Council asked DfI to use its powers of enforcement to order the removal of a turbine at Knock Iveagh near Katesbridge. However, following confirmation from DfI that it would not do what Council has requested, a spokesperson confirmed Council is currently assessing the impact of this decision. “Council is aware of . . . Complete story »


January 18, 2021 • Northern IrelandPrint storyE-mail story

Ancient burial site row ‘not our issue’ says Infrastructure Department

A Stormont department has refused to intervene in a planning row over a wind turbine erected at a 5,000-year-old protected burial ground. The Department for Infrastructure was asked to force the removal of the turbine at Knock Iveagh near Rathfriland after a planning mistake. The request came from a council which had inherited responsibility for the error. This happened when planning powers were transferred to local government. Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon District Council feared it would be liable for compensation . . . Complete story »


December 30, 2020 • Ireland, Northern IrelandPrint storyE-mail story

EPA considers legal action over damage from wind farm landslide

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said it is considering legal action against those responsible for a landslide at the construction site of a new wind farm. Last November’s slide at Meenbog in Co Donegal brought thousands of tonnes of peat and trees down the hillside and into the River Finn. The Finn, which runs through Donegal and Tyrone, is a special area of conservation, renowned for its salmon, trout and otters. Spawning beds have been smothered along stretches of . . . Complete story »


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