September 2009
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Minister Burke s Speech to the 2021 Wind Energy Ireland Annual Conference
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Good morning everyone – I am delighted to be here with you today, and I would like to thank Wind Energy Ireland for inviting me to deliver the keynote address at this important Conference.
Today, I would like to use this opportunity to update you about the work going on in my Department to facilitate the development of Offshore Wind in Ireland, as well as update you on a couple of other areas of interest to you such as the development of onshore Wind Energy Development Guidelines, Marine Protected Areas and the establishment of a new Maritime regulatory agency.
Saving marine mammals? Sounds like a plan for this Cork scientist
Emer Keaveney is the Cork marine biologist behind a new acoustic project that will record marine mammals and explore how noise pollution of the oceans is affecting them, writes ELLIE O’BYRNE
Marine biologist Emer Keaveney, from Blackrock, who is behind a new acoustic project.
Ellie O’Byrne
MARINE biology might be one of the most over-romanticised careers on the planet, but Cork woman Emer Keaveney is here to inject a shot of realism into how people view her job.
For her UCC undergraduate thesis, Emer spent three months “washing seal poo, basically,” she says with a laugh.
Protected areas in Irish waters will not be created in time to guide decisions on off-shore wind farms.
Plans to designate 30pc of Irish waters as Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are running behind preparations for a string of wind farms along the east and south coasts.
Officials say planners will be encouraged to use the best evidence available from existing conservation data and have regard to proposed designations when making decisions.
Sinn Féin planning spokesman, Eoin Ó Broin, says, however, it is a back-to-front way of going about business.
“We don’t have those designations, we don’t have them mapped out, we don’t even have sensitivity mapping of where they might be,” he said.