Landslide victims seek EU help

RESIDENTS of Derrybrien village in Co Galway hope to enlist EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom’s support for compensation for the disastrous landslide which struck their community last month.

Landslide victims seek EU help

“We have sent a letter to the commissioner requesting her to look at the whole situation and to investigate it,” Martin Collins, spokesman for Derrybrien Landslide Action Group, said last night.

He said the group wants Ms Wallstrom to investigate the issue in light of the fact that Galway County Council has considered an environmental impact statement (EIS) on the controversial ESB-owned windfarm at the centre of the row to be inadequate.

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