Energy infrastructure

Also, low quality land is not easily exploitable due to being inaccessible. If you took the back roads to clonmacnoise you would know heavy machinery would be lost never to be seen again unless you drain the bog and dig down to solid ground. The roads are laid on the bog and can't hold heavy machinery which is why there isn't a flat even secondary or tertiary road in west Offaly.

I don't care what you do as long as you keep your hands off rural Ireland and the nation's seas just to hand it off to multinationals who don't give a damn about Ireland. If that means they are unable to build Datacentres in Ireland so be it. Their problem, not ours and if contracts for our scarce wind resource have to be voided to reclaim what should never have been gifted to them then so be it.

Clearly you know FA about wind farm construction and maintainance on peatlands or their hydrology. I suggest you consult many of the planning documents connected with the operation of BNM Windarms in North Mayo, Offaly and elsewhere. The Derryad Wilderness Park FB page detailing BNM works adjacent to the Shannon River which hosts videos and drone footage of the extent of this pumping in preparation for windfarm construction. Other countries are restoring these peatlands cos they are sensible enough to know that they are some of the best natural climate buffers in terms of soaking up excess rainfall or protection against droughts. Your type can't be bothered to educate yourself on such matters as it would highlight your gross hypocracy when it comes to lecturing the rest of for not rolling over for wind developers and their Greenwash marketing .

Ah spare that BS in light of the this governments determination to massively expand our gas storage capacity in the Shannon Estuary etc.

This is unhinged lunatic conspiracy theory nonsense.

I have zero time for datacentres, I'd get rid of most of them if I had dictator level power! Throwing out phrases like tech bros and greenwashing just makes you look stupid.

Don't you work in a datacentre?

Us poor simple country folk want none of modern Ireland, except for a decent road to croke park in the summer , and a way for people to leave

As usual in life things arent exactly black and white , there are places wind turbines ,will work well , and places where they probably shouldn't be ,

Would I put a turbine on selling Michael - no , would I put one next to selling Michael - no because of the gannets , would I put one in gouganne Barra no , in sight of it ,? No prob

There are probably better ways to put wind turbines on bogs , draining bog to build foundations for wind turbines prob ain't great , I'm sure that there could be better ways , but all bogs aren't the same type ..

I'd suggest you go outside and enjoy the christmas before you wreck yourself and everyone else's head with these magical fines. The EU will not be fining itself in 2030, the economy has been shown to supersede the climate zealots time and time again. Even Ireland has backed data centres to the hilt with CRU recently enabling another 6 GW in the curiously undefined "short / medium term". Throw in a laughable 6-year derogation in which to seek renewables for said DCs.

The whole thing is nothing short of a looney merry-go-round, and they're depending on the likes of you to peddle it.

lol - your (and the NIMBYs’) claim was specifically about water being pumped during operations - a absolutely daft claim which I corrected. Thinking you can slip in the the word construction to replace operations and then abuse me for pointing out the obvious Is a clear a demonstration of your fundamental lack of honesty and integrity. It’s always the angry ones who have to lie and twist everything. Have you no sense of integrity?

I'm going to bow to your local knowledge, I know f'all about the midlands and less about bogs ,

But - I doubt if it's beyond the abilities of good engineers to move large but relatively lightweight objects through westmeath ..

May not be cheap - may not be quick - and I'll be honest - I don't know the expected output of a windfarm in the Midlands, or the costs involved in setting it up , it may not be cost effective,

It may still be a better idea to just stick them in the Celtic sea , or the arklow bank ..

BnM have been pumping water out of bogs since the 1950s - https://www.bordnamonalivinghistory.ie/article-detail/civil-works-in-bord-na-mona/

It has nothing to do with wind turbines. Now if you want to claim that Bord na Mona have been and continue to be poor guardians of Irish bogs - then I’ll happily agree.

But if you’re going claim that they’ve been doing this for decades as part of a long conspiracy to prepare for wind turbines then the “nuts” part of your name is clearly apt.