Planning submitted for 1.3GW offshore windfarm

by Ehldas

25 comments
  1. Planning now submitted for Ireland’s largest offshore windfarm, which will supply up to 1.3GW of power.

  2. 5-3 odds on it being rejected,

    100-1 odds its accepted.

  3. Any bets on the objection that gets it rejected? Mine is disruptive to fishing boats

  4. “It will be located between 13km to 22km off the Wicklow coast and will connect to the Irish grid at Poolbeg in Dublin.”

    As someone living in Saggart I must object, this will steal our mild wind or something…..

  5. Can’t wait for some dipshit to launch a judicial review objecting if it finally is granted permission.

  6. The country simply needs these projects to get over the line.

    A preemptive ‘fuck you’ to anyone thinking of objecting.

  7. Will this make electricity more expensive again and not cheaper?

  8. I object!! It’s going to steal the wind that dries my clothes!!!!!!!

  9. Affordable minced seagull is finally within reach!

  10. I don’t really think that the idea that turbines impose a visual impact should be much entertained as a reason for objecting to them.

    There’s an interesting tension though. Larger turbines are becoming favoured. This generally means fewer turbines (which I think does look, or at least has the potential to look, neater) but does mean that they are more easily visible from shore, even when they are far out.

  11. I am An Bord Pleanala. Approved, get building please.

  12. A 100m tall turbine, 13km offshore, when viewed by someone from the shore, the visible part of the turbine would look less than maybe 10mm tall.

    I’m sure someone will be upset about their view being destroyed

  13. Like why are they even submitting a planning application, it’s not even on the island of Ireland?

    Just get on with it…

  14. Recently saw a huge wind farm 18 km out. I found it landscape transforming

  15. When fusion or whatever comes along and makes the turbines uneconomic to maintain, the objectors grandchildren will object to the loss of the beautiful and traditional view.

  16. Codling?! Jayyysus, my dad worked on media and communications for this project wayyyyy back in like… I want to say maybe 2003 or 2004? I assumed it had either been built or abandoned years ago! How is it still not even at a decision stage?

  17. Hopefully it doesn’t get tied up. 
    I’d thought the Oriel windfarm in Louth was blocked but they are supposedly submitting applications soon, or so sayeth their website update in May.

  18. Hopefully it doesn’t get tied up. 
    I’d thought the Oriel windfarm in Louth was blocked but they are supposedly submitting applications soon, or so sayeth their website update in May.

  19. Local residents in cork object

    Whatabout the civil war, fuck the jackeens, project back to planning

  20. I object! It might interfere with Russian submarines going about their peaceful business. Yours sincerely, I Filatov.

  21. “These wind turbines are not in keeping with the local area, which is mostly the sea, and for that reason I would like to see them refused.”

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