{"id":495121,"date":"2026-06-11T23:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495121\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:49:15","slug":"new-environmental-reports-lodged-for-17-turbine-wind-farm-for-east-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495121\/","title":{"rendered":"New environmental reports lodged for\u00a017-turbine wind farm for East Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Extra documentation has been submitted as part of the planning application for a 17-turbine wind farm in East Kerry.<\/p>\n

In December 2024, Kerry County Council recommended that the independent national<\/a> planning body, then called An B\u00f3rd Plean\u00e1la, refuse permission for the Cummeennabuddoge wind farm.<\/p>\n

Councillors<\/a> were concerned that granting permission for a wind farm in an area not zoned for wind energy would set an unwanted precedent.<\/p>\n

The proposed wind farm would be developed by Cummeennabuddoge Wind DAC, a project by SSE Renewables and FuturEnergy Ireland, the 50:50 partnership between Coillte and ESB Networks.<\/p>\n

The company is seeking permission to build and operate a 17-turbine wind farm on lands at Cummeennabuddoge, Clydaghroe, Glashacormick and Cummeenavrick, all in County Kerry.<\/p>\n

It also includes a grid connection into county Cork, near Ballyvourney.<\/p>\n

An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR), and a Natura Impact Statement (NIS) have now been submitted as part of the application.<\/p>\n

The NIS concludes that, with mitigation measures in place, the project would not adversely affect any protected nature sites.<\/p>\n

The EIAR states that environmental impacts would occur.<\/p>\n

However, it says that, with mitigation measures in place, most environmental impacts would be reduced to acceptable or non-significant levels.<\/p>\n

Overall, it finds that the project\u2019s climate and renewable energy benefits outweigh the residual environmental effects.<\/p>\n

It concludes that the development could proceed without unacceptable environmental harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Extra documentation has been submitted as part of the planning application for a 17-turbine wind farm in East…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-495121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495121","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=495121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}