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Category Archives: Enercon
How do our courts work?
The volume of work at my place of employment has caused me to neglect this blog, for which I apologise. Rather than simply stopping blogging, I thought I might combine work and blogging. The piece below is a very … Continue reading →
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Tagged accident, Alex White, ANC, bald eagles, biomass, Canada, corruption, Cost of renewable energy, cost of wind power, County Manager, DA, depression, dizziness, eagle's nest, Ei, EirGrid, Electrical grid, EMF, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, foreseeability, golden eagles, Graham Lloyd, green, green energy, infrasound, Ireland, Keith Stelling, Leave To Appeal, low frequency noise, McGuiness, nocebo, power prices, public funds, Rabbitt, renewable energy, renewables, Road Traffic Act, Simon Chapman, sleep deprivation, student; study; learning; text book, suicide, tort, vehicle, Waterford Council, White Paper, wind, wind energy, Wind farm, wind farm noise, wind farms, Wind power, wind power costs, wind turbine noise, wind turbine syndrome, wind turbines, windfarms, Zuma
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Access to Justice?
The Aarhus Compliance Committee has interpreted Article 9 (3) of the Convention to mean that the public must have access to adequate judicial mechanisms in the event of acts and omissions in contravention of environmental law and, secondly, to provide … Continue reading →
Posted in An Bord Pleanala; appeal; interested parties, Apple; Google; Data Centre, Brexit, BSB Community Energy Ltd, Cloud; iCloud; Data Centre; Data Center, Democracy; Ireland; Fine Gael; Labour; Sinn Fein; Workers; Constitution, Dr Sarah Laurie; Steve Cooper; Bob McMurtry; Alun Evans, EirGrid; Insurance; Law; Cancer; EMF, Enercon, EU Renewable Energy 2020 Target, Framore Limited, Freedom of Information; Access to Environmental Information; AIE; Commissioner for Environmental Information, Green Party; Ireland; Eamonn Ryan; Cormac Manning, High Court; Judge Caroline Costello; John Callaghan; Leave to Appeal, High Court; Judicial Review; Appeal on the merits; judicial discretion, judicial review; Wednesbury Test; O'Keeffe; rationality; Separation of Powers, Law; High Court; Leave To Appeal; Environment, Legal Costs; Access to Justice; Courts, NREAP; National Renewable Energy Action Plan; EU Commission; Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee; ACCC, Pat Swords, Planning and Development Act 2000; guidelines; directives; Sections 28 & 29, Planning Permission; Extension; Planning and Development Act, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters; Aarhus Convention; Aarhus Treaty, The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s (UNECE) Convention on Access to Information, Wind Farm Guidelines, turbines, flicker, noise, distance, Denis Naughten, Wind Turbine Syndrome; Professor Alun Evans
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Tagged biomass, Canada, DA, depression, dizziness, Electrical grid, EMF, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, green, infrasound, Ireland, renewable energy, renewables, sleep deprivation, suicide, tort, wind, wind energy, Wind farm, wind farm noise, wind farms, wind turbine noise, wind turbine syndrome, wind turbines, windfarms
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Going, going, gone (with the wind).
The excellent blog produced by Owen Martin makes a very valid point: even if you don’t give a damn about the environment, you do care what is being pinched out of your pocket to keep the Great Wind Swindle alive. … Continue reading →
Posted in Apple; Google; Data Centre, BSB Community Energy Ltd, Cloud; iCloud; Data Centre; Data Center, EirGrid; Insurance; Law; Cancer; EMF, Enercon, EU Renewable Energy 2020 Target, Framore Limited, Green Party; Ireland; Eamonn Ryan; Cormac Manning, Kilvinane Wind Farm Ltd; substituted consent, NREAP; National Renewable Energy Action Plan; EU Commission; Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee; ACCC
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Tagged EMF, green, Ireland, Owen Martin, renewable energy, wind
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It’s official – wind farms are a damned Nuisance
The tort of Nuisance – basic principles The law of (private) nuisance has been around for a long time but it has always been a poor neighbour to the more commonly litigated torts of negligence and trespass. In … Continue reading →
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Tagged dizziness, Enercon; Shivnen; Carraigcannon Wind Farm; Cork; damages; High Court; Nuisance; tort law; damages; IWEA, green energy, Ireland, renewable energy, sleep deprivation, suicide, wind, wind energy, Wind farm, wind farms, Wind power
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