The story of the Harris family highlights the fact that the development of wind farms is subject to few planning checks, writes Michael Clifford

An energy developer is offering up to €5,000 to each family living within 1km of a proposed new windfarm in north Meath.

An energy developer has Meath GAA onboard for its project, but local people are not so receptive to the plan, writes Special Correspondent Michael Clifford.

Mainstream Renewable Power is understood to have fully pulled the plug on its €6b energy bridge project aimed at exporting 5,000 megawatts of power to Britain and generating nearly €3bn in annual export revenue.

Protesting landowners in west Waterford have claimed an energy company is not honouring “previously-agreed conditions” over a planned wind farm.

Buses were hired and cars filled with petrol and diesel this morning as between 3,000 and 5,000 protesters take part in a mass protest in Dublin over wind turbines and pylons.

Wind turbines technology ‘intrusive, divisive, and not effective’, says protester.

Irish wind-farm developers, counting on a trade deal that would allow them to benefit from British power subsidies, said they are confident an agreement will be reached.

The Dáil Environment Committee is today discussing the potential to export surplus electricity to the UK.

Bord na Móna has unveiled a €1bn energy export plan to turn bogs across Offaly and Kildare into windfarms.

I was pleased to see in your newspaper (Mar 19) that Tim Cowhig, CEO of Element Power, wants a proper national debate about wind farms in Ireland.

A group of families in a north Cork village are suing a wind farm operator in a landmark case, claiming the huge turbines are adversely affecting their health.

Plans to construct more than 2,000 wind turbines in the Midlands have already angered locals and will divide farmers. People are mobilising and getting ready to stand up to the plans, writes Michael Clifford

The Energy Minister Pat Rabbitte has urged those concerned about proposed windfarms for the midlands to view them in a positive light.

Even the smallest dent in Ireland’s export levels to Britain would outweigh the gains made in exports to the key Bric emerging nations, the British-Irish Chamber of Commerce annual conference heard yesterday.

International energy firm Element Power is planning to improve Britain’s renewable energy provisions by building a number of wind farms in the Irish midlands — a move which will create thousands of jobs here and result in Ireland exporting over €1.2 billion worth of wind-generated electricity to Britain annually.

National Grid UK has signed a contract with Element Power to provide 3,000 megawatts of electricity to Britain from Ireland - through two subsea cables as 2,000 new jobs are to be created in Ireland as part of an €8bn euro renewable energy investment.