Seanad debates

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

3:00 am

Photo of John WhelanJohn Whelan (Labour)

The worst fears of the community about a spider web of power lines across the country are now being realised. We have attended a briefing by another company which is promising not hundreds of jobs but tens of thousands of jobs, not millions of euro investment but billions of euro. They are promising to do so with the installation of 750 wind turbines in the midlands. This is in addition to another company which proposes another 1,500 wind turbines across the midlands. The proposals of these two companies alone amount to 2,000 wind turbines across the midlands, in the bog, and no one has convinced me how this power will be transmitted from the midlands over to the eastern seaboard and across to Britain.

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