IRELAND CENSURED BY EU COURT OVER WIND FARM CONTROLS
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND has been censured by the European Court of Justice for failing to subject wind power generation projects to environmental impact assessments demanded by European Union law. Judges made the ruling over planning consents given for a wind farm at Derrybrien, County Galway - a controversial large project destroying 263 hectares of coniferous forest. A landslip of peat at the site in 2003 polluted a river, killing 50,000 fish.
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IRELAND has been censured by the European Court of Justice for failing to subject wind power generation projects to environmental impact assessments demanded by European Union law. Judges made the ruling over planning consents given for a wind farm at Derrybrien, County Galway - a controversial large project destroying 263 hectares of coniferous forest. A landslip of peat at the site in 2003 polluted a river, killing 50,000 fish.
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