Cutting forestry releases CO2, and destroys our only international credits, carbon credits.
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Joseph Brennan
11 years ago
Where Coillte = once sitka spruce on upland boglands = now spinning white skeletons on the same lands it amounts to a double rape of once pure landscapes. Stop this madness indeed. It is all GREED - see this week an Israeli company, Enlight Renewable Energy Ltd, buying a start up Irish windfarm (unspecified location in the North West) for 100 million shekels citing as a reason that Ireland had “very supportive regulation for wind power". All the blah from the government about green energy / reducing carbon emissions etc is just a smoke screen for developer greed....
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lorraine ryan
11 years ago
it is a great shock to think coillte would not put the people before big companies ruining our forests and countryside
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Coasterose Sorcha
11 years ago
Entering Co Donegal now from the West that first image is Wind Turbines, Blades turning and this is just the view, then the flicker, the noise, the water contamination, the devaluation of homes and farmland for miles around, wildlife displacement due to the acres or trees that were planted by Coillte through the years that have to be cut down, to allow for tonnes of concrete to be poured into the landscape. How can this be allowed? This is what the local person is asking and communities are fighting to preserve. The Wild Atlantic Way that has been promoted in so many countries is now being desecrated along every route.
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Mary Gallinagh
11 years ago
Please don't entertain the wind farm developers - we want to keep our area the way it is - beautiful. I don't want to see it blighted by turbines. Our forestry will be destroyed and we will never get back what we had. Don't allow Coilkte land to be used.
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Michelle Quinn Mullally
11 years ago
Wind farms are not the solution to global warming.
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Neil van Dokkum
11 years ago
Stop this madness. It is completely out of hand.
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Adrienne Dollard
11 years ago
Wind Energy is not working at any level. Coillte should take note that the Irish People have woken up. Communities all over Ireland will not endorse this disgraceful waste of tax payers money and the destruction of our beautiful countryside
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Philip Hunt
11 years ago
wind farms make you ill, google low frequency noise
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dominic moss
11 years ago
say no to this and all proposed wind farms. preserve our beautiful landscape.
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Owen McMullan
11 years ago
Industrial Wind Turbines Are Unhealthy, Uneconomical, Unreliable and Unwanted.
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Dave fingleton
11 years ago
Coillte. .less green greed and more green principles please
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Joanne Addie
11 years ago
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For a semi state company to invest in what could lead to real losses for the people forced to live beside them is a disgrace. If Coillte care about saving the planet then do what their good at and plant new trees which will reduce Co2 unlike errecting Industrial Machines which have little effect on reducing Co2. PLANT TREES NOT TURBINES.
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Michael mc glinchey
11 years ago
This is the homes we worked hard to pay for an now we may have to leave them for the sake of our health WHY Pure grid on coillte behalf backed by a government that want to pretend rural Ireland dose not exist
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Kathleen Hinton
11 years ago
If Coillte is so interested in the Wind Farm industry, why isn't it investing in research to find out the damage being done to the environment, as well as to the people/wildlife and fauna living in the local of wind farms? Being interested in a quick buck, without understanding the impact to this country benefits no one. You're going against your own mission statement "Coillte's core purpose is to enrich lives locally, nationally and globally through the innovative and sustainable management of natural resources" Shame on you, Coillte
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Vivienne Kelly-Keane
11 years ago
Destroying forests is not in the best interests of the people that you hold them in trust for.
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Audrey Crawford
11 years ago
Totally against this wind farm. Our area will be ruined!
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Anonymous
11 years ago
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Everyone needs and deserves the right to be able to go home after a days work and be able to relax in their own home, with out worrying about what negative effect these huge turbine are going to have on their and their childrens health.
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Anne O'Connor
11 years ago
Why is a forestry company getting involved in Wind farms ? For subsidies ? It's not Luke any of this is bringing down the price of electricity
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Gabrielle Dunne
11 years ago
This should not be happening. If the plans go ahead it will have a detrimental effect on everyone's health. Our government should hang their heads in shame
Cutting forestry releases CO2, and destroys our only international credits, carbon credits.
Where Coillte = once sitka spruce on upland boglands = now spinning white skeletons on the same lands it amounts to a double rape of once pure landscapes. Stop this madness indeed. It is all GREED - see this week an Israeli company, Enlight Renewable Energy Ltd, buying a start up Irish windfarm (unspecified location in the North West) for 100 million shekels citing as a reason that Ireland had “very supportive regulation for wind power". All the blah from the government about green energy / reducing carbon emissions etc is just a smoke screen for developer greed....
it is a great shock to think coillte would not put the people before big companies ruining our forests and countryside
Entering Co Donegal now from the West that first image is Wind Turbines, Blades turning and this is just the view, then the flicker, the noise, the water contamination, the devaluation of homes and farmland for miles around, wildlife displacement due to the acres or trees that were planted by Coillte through the years that have to be cut down, to allow for tonnes of concrete to be poured into the landscape. How can this be allowed? This is what the local person is asking and communities are fighting to preserve. The Wild Atlantic Way that has been promoted in so many countries is now being desecrated along every route.
Please don't entertain the wind farm developers - we want to keep our area the way it is - beautiful. I don't want to see it blighted by turbines. Our forestry will be destroyed and we will never get back what we had. Don't allow Coilkte land to be used.
Wind farms are not the solution to global warming.
Stop this madness. It is completely out of hand.
Wind Energy is not working at any level. Coillte should take note that the Irish People have woken up. Communities all over Ireland will not endorse this disgraceful waste of tax payers money and the destruction of our beautiful countryside
wind farms make you ill, google low frequency noise
say no to this and all proposed wind farms. preserve our beautiful landscape.
Industrial Wind Turbines Are Unhealthy, Uneconomical, Unreliable and Unwanted.
Coillte. .less green greed and more green principles please
For a semi state company to invest in what could lead to real losses for the people forced to live beside them is a disgrace. If Coillte care about saving the planet then do what their good at and plant new trees which will reduce Co2 unlike errecting Industrial Machines which have little effect on reducing Co2. PLANT TREES NOT TURBINES.
This is the homes we worked hard to pay for an now we may have to leave them for the sake of our health WHY Pure grid on coillte behalf backed by a government that want to pretend rural Ireland dose not exist
If Coillte is so interested in the Wind Farm industry, why isn't it investing in research to find out the damage being done to the environment, as well as to the people/wildlife and fauna living in the local of wind farms? Being interested in a quick buck, without understanding the impact to this country benefits no one. You're going against your own mission statement "Coillte's core purpose is to enrich lives locally, nationally and globally through the innovative and sustainable management of natural resources" Shame on you, Coillte
Destroying forests is not in the best interests of the people that you hold them in trust for.
Totally against this wind farm. Our area will be ruined!
Everyone needs and deserves the right to be able to go home after a days work and be able to relax in their own home, with out worrying about what negative effect these huge turbine are going to have on their and their childrens health.
Why is a forestry company getting involved in Wind farms ? For subsidies ? It's not Luke any of this is bringing down the price of electricity
This should not be happening. If the plans go ahead it will have a detrimental effect on everyone's health. Our government should hang their heads in shame