Galway Bay FM
31 December 2020
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – A fresh appeal has been lodged against the county council’s refusal of a plan for a controversial biogas plant in Gort.
The plan is led by Sustainable Bio-Energy Limited and would be located in the townlands of Ballynamantan, Kinincha and Glenbrack.
In January of 2019, an application to develop a biogas plant on a 10 hectare site around one kilometre from Gort was withdrawn by Sustainable Bio-Energy Limited.
A second application was submitted last November for the plant, which would utilise anaerobic digestion technology to produce renewable energy and organic fertiliser.
However county planners refused permission for the project in January citing a number of factors.
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East Clare windfarm application open for submissions
December 11, 2020
COMMUNITIES from Feakle to Killaloe are being urged to make themselves aware of the details of a planning application for a 19-turbine windfarm which have just been lodged with An Bord Pleanála.
Along with reports detailing the potential impact on the environment and on wildlife habitats on the 749 hectare site, the Coillte application outlines the full specification for the Carrownagowan Windfarm, which is earmarked for the northern slopes of Slieve Bernagh.
“I would strongly urge all of the communities of East Clare to make themselves aware of what is proposed,” said Chairperson of the Killaloe Municipal District, Councillor Pat Hayes. “People need to be satisfied about the impact this development might have on the quality of life for this generation and generations to come. People need to inform themselves and make their views known.”
THE EDITOR, Madam:
This is a letter written to Peter Knight, chief executive officer of National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA).
I sat through the presentation of the Environmental Impact Assessment Report presentation staged jointly by NEPA and Noranda regarding the mining of bauxite in an area of the Cockpit Country and I am more convinced than ever that we must protect the area from further degradation and destruction and abandon the plans for mining in the area.
The presentation was preceded by a public relations film by Noranda pointing out all the positive and wonderful things they and their antecedent bauxite companies have done for Jamaica to set the tone for the actual environmental impact assessment, which can best be described as a sham or ‘snow job’, presented by consultants hired by Noranda to highlight all the positives and downplay all the negatives of bauxite mining in the area.