An appeals board ruling on the ESB’s wind farm at Derrybrien in south Galway “casts a major doubt over the legality of the project”, according to Loughrea solicitor Dan Shiels. Mr Shiels was commenting after An Bord Pleanála refused substitute consent to an ESB subsidiary, Gort Windfarms Ltd, for the Read more
A White-tailed Eagle which had been fitted with a GPS tracking device as part of a monitoring programme has died after being hit by the blade of a wind turbine in Flevoland, The Netherlands. As reported in Nature Today, the bird was one of 15 young eagles born in the Read more
A wee loch in Argyll is at the heart of a proposed new energy storage facility that will help guarantee continuous power from renewable sources such as wind farms as the country moves away from fossil fuels. Project Balliemeanoch will turn Lochan Airigh into a headpond containing 58 million cubic Read more