The State has reached agreement with the European Commission to cease daily fines of €15,000 relating to an ESB-owned wind farm in Co Galway
The sanctions were imposed as a result of Ireland's failure to ensure environmental standards were upheld at the Derrybrien Wind Farm on the Slieve Aughty mountains.
The planning board found the scale of the damage caused by the wind farm to the Slieve Aughty mountains was"clear, profound and unacceptable" and that it could not be mitigated. It argued that a retrospective environmental impact assessment for the Derrybrien development meant the court’s judgements had been complied with. On this basis, it sought to stop the imposition of the €15,000 daily fine.
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