Special report: Windfarm impact - On the road to a collision over proposed plans

A Waterford community is being split in two by plans for a proposed windfarm. Michael Clifford looks at the issues involved and the rifts they have caused

WHEN Fiona Keane got word that there were solid plans for a windfarm in her area of Co Waterford last November, she set off on foot.

She knocked on her neighbours’ doors. She went house to house all the way into the village of Stradbally three miles away, alerting all to what was coming down the line.