Wind energy group blamed for causing landslide

A WIND energy company was blamed yesterday for the landslide in Derrybrien, Co Galway, last October.

A report carried out by Applied Ground Engineering Consultants (AGEC) found work by the ESB subsidiary, Hibernian Wind Power (HWP), on a €60 million windfarm triggered the landslide.

The landslide closed local roads and polluted the Lough Cutra river system where thousands of fish were killed when 70 acres of bogland flowed down river.