Darren Sweeney

species concerns that the locals would have.

On top of that, we don't have much industry where we're from.

Like, it's very little industry.

Yes, there are some small

factories etc but tourism is our industry like we are we are have a number of businesses and I'm you know most of the businesses rely heavily on tourism we are very local they're not going to be coming to look at wind turbines I'm going to come back to you in a minute but I want to bring in Justin at this point can I just bring in Justin at this point I'll come back to you then in a minute Darren

Of course they are.

And that's why I start on the outset that we are pro-wind, we are pro-renewables and we already have them in our back garden.

So it's not like we haven't accepted them in the past.

It's just this particular site that

we feel is why we will object to it is the fact that this particular site we don't feel is suitable and I do want to just touch on something that Justin said and you know I feel like the discussion around electricity prices is obviously very emotive considering where we are today and how we're all paying way in excess of what we would have hoped to be paid but I think that

You know, to the layman, and I'm no better than the layman, but to the layman, the term that these, or the thought that these electricity, or these wind turbines will reduce electricity significantly is fairly, I don't think, I think it's wide in the mark, personally.

Like, I mean, there was a study recently, and it might have been even on your own show, there was a professor on, possibly not, but, you know, the actual generation of electricity only accounts for 30 to 40% of the overall cost.

Like, there are taxes, there's managing the grid, there's moving the electricity, there's supplier margins.

There's various other chunks of the pie as such that make up the overall cost of electricity.

Knowing everything we know of what's happened over in other parts of the world with regards to war,

you know, all it could take is a misinterpreted emoji from Donald Trump would affect electricity more so than these wind turbines on the mountain in North Leitrim.

So I think it's very, very important.

Look, I won't get into whether there's other locations, but I suppose really what has us massively concerned and is at the forefront of our mind is that developing anything upland on peat is a bad idea.

And I mean, the particular site itself that we're talking about had a refusal for a wind farm in 2010 by onboard Planola due to the risk of peat slippages.

People wouldn't have to look very far and on, you know, just Google Meenabagh, Ballybuffet, wind farm, and you will see the absolutely catastrophic effect that developing a wind farm had on upland peatland, where you had massive land slippages feeding into all the watercourses, detrimental to all the fish stocks in the area.