Darren Sweeney

Likewise, more closer to home, I suppose Donegal, Meenabagh is maybe one hour from where I live from the site.

Drumcairn is only up the road.

Now it was to do with afforestation.

It had a detrimental peat slippage.

I think it was maybe, and this is, don't quote me on it, maybe six, seven years ago.

Like these had catastrophic effects on the locality, catastrophic effects on the species around the area, on watercourses, on like, we are, all of the areas around this particular site,

the hydrology of it all leads to two local SSEs.

So like, and some one of the SSE is the one thing that feeds all our drinking water.

So this is not,

This is not NIMBYism.

This is not, I don't like the look of wind turbines.

It has absolutely nothing to do with that.

It's to do with the fact that upland development in peat areas just is a recipe for disaster.

Just the idea of the community benefit fund kind of sits a bit uncomfortably with us all.

We feel like it's a

We feel like it's sort of, you know, it's the brown envelope.

It's a bribe.

It completely feels like it's all sorts of a wrong feeling inside us when we think of it.

So, you know, and again, and I don't want to get too particular on what Justin is exactly saying about keeping libraries open and business, like that's the emotive sort of tone that

the companies like Future Energy who are proposing to develop this particular wind farm, that's the sort of tone that they're taking.