Michael Miley

It has room to breathe.

There are some sites here, breeding sites, that don't have a population in some years and have them in others.

So that's proof it's able to move around the landscape.

I can more than justify it.

I can applaud it.

And I'll tell you why I'm applauding it.

One of the big challenges to nature is pollution.

Yes, I want clean energy.

Our nature needs clean energy.

So, for example, in this area, we have a road that connects Eden Derry and Rathangan.

The peatland habitats the west of that road are severely degraded.

We have suggested to Bòrd na Móna that that's where they concentrate their wind energy installations.

Oh, it's a vast area.

What the plan is instead is to extend the wind farm over the entire estate.

This is five square kilometers and the plan is to have 47 turbines of 220 to tip height in most cases across the landscape.

We absolutely have to have clean energy for our ecosystems, not just to meet national commitments in terms of clean energy.

Our ecosystems need to take global warming gases out of the energy equation.

So we need them, but we need them to be where they cause the least harm and the least harm.

provide the best solutions and a national policy would be and a national policy would be would be fantastic there at risk of repeating yeah well look i mean everything needs a plan how do we plan to meet today how are you going to do anything without a proper plan a plan that's coherent and draws in all of the key elements like our energy needs our biodiversity needs and our needs for space i mean look at it we could be in heaven here it could be anywhere in the world here

You know, lovely place to ramble, great for human health.