Councillors in Roscommon say they will not support plans for a large wind farm in the west of the county. It follows Chief Executive Shane Tiernan\u2019s report on the development of eleven turbines in the Frenchpark and Ballinagare areas. The turbines, measuring 185 metres tall, are part of the Carrigeen Renewable Energy Development. The council executive voiced concerns regarding the location of the wind farm, which would be close to Rathcroghan. The council is worried it could have had adverse impact on its bid to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.<\/p>\n
A report prepared by the council’s chief executive says the proposal can’t be endorsed on the basis of the detail, analysis and justifications presented to date. An Coimis\u00fan Plean\u00e1la will make the final decision on planning permission, but the council had been asked for its view. At today’s council meeting, councillors voiced their opposition to the wind farm. Cllr Tom Crosby told the meeting that the Government has \u2018failed miserably\u2019 to set out proper guidelines when it comes to wind farms.<\/p>\n
Cllr Valerie Byrne said the development would hamper Rathcroghan\u2019s UNESCO bid and damage local tourism. Cllr Sean Moylan also rejected the plans, and said a wind farm near Rathcroghan would \u2018fly in the face\u2019 of local residents\u2019 difficulties in obtaining planning permission in the historical area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councillors in Roscommon say they will not support plans for a large wind farm in the west of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-466809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466809","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=466809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}