Tackling windfarm issue

PEOPLE fret nowadays when there’s a focus on the impact of a development, such as a windfarm on wildlife.

They argue that more emphasis should be on how humans might be affected, which is understandable.

This was again the case at a four-day planning hearing in Macroom, Co Cork, into a project by EirGrid to put a 40km powerline across a swathe of West Cork countryside. Farmers and others living along the route queued up to object, pointing to possible adverse effects on the landscape, quality of life and their livelihoods. They made their arguments eloquently and left nobody in doubt about a high level of local opposition.