The Government has shut down calls for a windfarm on the Clare / Galway border to be retained.
Ireland was fined €5m in the European Court of Justice in 2019 for failing to carry out an environmental assessment at the site of the Derrybrien Windfarm in the Slieve Aughty Mountains, and was forced to pay a further €15,000 per day afterwards.
The 70 turbine windfarm ceased operations in March, with the ESB confirming the site would be decommissioned after An Bord Pleanala ruled not to grant retrospective planning permission to fix issues at the site.
Responding on behalf of the Environment Minister to a query from Scariff Independent TD Michael McNamara, Minister Hildegarde Naughton explains that the site is now ‘unathorised’.
Listen to the full address here:
