Other Approaches

• 2016 Study: Where is the national spatial planning to provide a long-term integrated framework for a sustainable and resilient energy future in Ireland, balancing onshore wind with other environmental values such as landscape aesthetics, ecology, agriculture and housing?

• Moneypoint the key to Ireland’s energy future? Especially when the wind doesn’t blow.

• Changing Ireland’s Planning System to accommodate Global Energy Companies, as the Government of Ireland moves the goal posts from 70% renewables by 2030 to 80%.April 2022: Changes needed in planning system in Ireland says Multinational Energy Co.
  Irish politicians respond with a ‘Planning Reform Programme’ and prioritising Strategic Infrastructure Development (SID) applications, favouring Big Business, over the citizens of Ireland.