{"id":326282,"date":"2026-03-03T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326282\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:32:09","slug":"david-w-higgins-we-will-all-pay-a-price-if-galway-residents-successfully-oppose-solar-farm-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/326282\/","title":{"rendered":"David W Higgins: We will all pay a price if Galway residents successfully oppose solar farm expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Renewables could be the key to Ireland\u2019s energy independence\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An engineer carries out a maintenance check on a \u2018field\u2019 of solar panels, which cover vast areas in many countries. Stock image\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f694aca1-99f4-4b34-a931-02551424fc18.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">An engineer carries out a maintenance check on a \u2018field\u2019 of solar panels, which cover vast areas in many countries. Stock image\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The song Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin\u2019 is from the 1943 musical Oklahoma. It captures the beauty of a rural sunrise with a \u201cbright, golden haze on the meadow\u201d and corn \u201cas high as an elephant\u2019s eye\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The imagery is apt, as corn crops can grow to about three metres, roughly the height of an elephant\u2019s eye from the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renewables could be the key to Ireland\u2019s energy independence An engineer carries out a maintenance check on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[114,2885,246,61,11829,60,2850,82,2040],"class_list":{"0":"post-326282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-poland","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}