{"id":134189,"date":"2026-07-23T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/134189\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:48:13","slug":"concerns-over-4-5bn-manx-wind-farm-plan-surging-say-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/134189\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns over \u00a34.5bn Manx wind farm plan surging, say protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Protesters have insisted they will not back down from their opposition to a proposed \u00a34.5bn wind farm off the Isle of Man coast, as they gathered outside the Manx parliament on its final sitting before September&#8217;s general election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Mooir Vannin offshore wind farm proposals by Danish energy giant Orsted would see 87 turbines built six to 12 miles (11.1km to 22.2km) off the eastern coast of Maughold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Campaign group No Offshore Turbines for the Isle of Man (NOT4IOM) said public concern had surged in the past four months as the examination board had looked into the application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Orsted has been approached for comment, while the Planning Inspectorate&#8217;s recommendation is due on 8 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The protest came on this administration&#8217;s final sitting of Tynwald before it dissolves for the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heading up the group, Georgina O&#8217;Sullivan said support had grown to more than &#8220;10,000 people now, that do not agree with the Mooir Vannin Wind Farm&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protesters have insisted they will not back down from their opposition to a proposed \u00a34.5bn wind farm off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[285],"tags":[287],"class_list":["post-134189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orsted","tag-orsted"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116969846000177743","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}