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Industrialisation of the Midlands

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  • 08-03-2013 10:08am
    #1
    Chloe Pink
    Registered Users Posts: 804 ✭✭✭


    "Plans to build 2,300 wind turbines across the midlands to supply electricity to the UK"

    Although conceived years ago, this matter is hitting the news now,
    and thought it important to share as it has serious implications for many.

    There's also been a long thread on it in the After Hours forum on it with lots about the noise issues.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=83387695

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...329371495.html
    "Mr Duncan said the British government “appears to be delighted that Irish people seem less aware of the noise and visual pollution associated with wind turbines [and] don’t actually understand the scale of them”."

    "A number of companies are seeking to erect up to 2,300 wind turbines, each some 185m high, across five midland counties. The power they generated would be exported to Britain via the electricity interconnector with Wales."

    "Richard Tol, economics professor at University of Sussex and formerly of the Economic and Social Research Institute, said it was a “good deal” from the British perspective, but for Ireland, it would amount to “giving away the family silver”."

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/55b02510-6...#ixzz2Mw2ZTLDr
    "But the proposal to build multiple wind farms in Ireland to supply UK customers has prompted opposition among environmentalists in Ireland. Wind farm information groups have sprung up in parts of the country, expressing concern about the scale of the proposals."

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...330792044.html
    Plans to build 2,300 wind turbines across the midlands to supply electricity to the UK were described last night at a public meeting as an “outrage”. Local people in the Co Laois village of Ballyroan called for a moratorium on Government proposals to locate wind turbines in five midland counties until proper environmental assessments take place"

    "Mr Duncan said such turbines had only been seen at sea before and were “monsters”.
    “It’s been planned for a long time back. You’ve got to get up and get angry,” he said.
    “It is going to railroaded through the people of the midlands unless we rise up.”
    Engineer Pat Swords, who is taking a case to the High Court in relation to the European Union’s attitude to renewable energy targets, said local people were entitled under the terms of the Aarhus convention to be consulted about the proposals."


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