The wind turbine at Dundalk IT will be open to the public this Sunday and Monday.
Everyone is welcome to come along on either day to discuss the benefits of wind energy.
The event is planned as part of Sustainable Energy Week, which runs from Monday to Friday of next week.
A NEW wind farm proposed for the Cooley Peninsula has had its planning application denied by An Bord Pleanala.
Gaelectric had been looking to build the windfarm within the Rockmarshall forestry plantation north of Jenkinstown and approximately 6km north east of Dundalk.
Their plan was to construct five wind turbines with hub heights not exceeding 80 metres, plus a substation and a meteorological mast.
The hope was that the wind farm would provide electricity for around 7,000 households.
However, a group of local campaigners have always been against the proposed wind farm and have fought the matter vigourously in recent years over fears about its proximity to local houses and the impact it would have on them – pointing out that the devices, which would be larger than the Crowne Plaza Hotel, could impact structures, TV signals and destroy the landscape of the Cooley Mountains.
In April 2012 Louth County Council rejected Gaelectric’s planning application and An Bord Pleanala has now upheld that decision.
Local Green Party councillor Mark Dearey – who lives on the Cooley Peninsula – was quoted a few years back as saying the wind farm was the “right idea in the wrong place” – a quote that became the slogan for the Protect Rockmarshall Mountain group.
The well known billboard protesting against the Rockmarshall Wind Farm, parked near to Fitzpatrick’s Pub and Restaurant in Rockmarshall
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