Bantry Concerned Action Group
c/o Joe Burke, Droumaduneen, Bantry, Co. Cork
or e-mail Roger Alison at bcag@rogeralison.com
Our groups concerns can be briefly summarised as follows:
- Planning was granted for the windfarm after an EIS was carried out, however no EIS was carried out on the powerline, and the route of the powerline was not mentioned in the planning application. The powerline will have 9 steel pylons, and a large number of double wooden poles (dipped in creosote, now banned for farm use under EU directives 2001/90/EEC [because of carcinogenic potential] and 76/769/EEC).
- The site for the powerhouse on the windfarm was changed after planning was granted (to accomadate the line direction towards Ballylickey, however there was no new EIS.
- The ESB are using the powers of the 1927 Supply of Electricity Act to force this line through to benefit a private developer - this was not the original intention of the act, and it's use for this is questionable.
- People in the area have significant health worries about the effects of radiation and the risk of accidents from an overhead line, and have asked for it to be buried.
- People in the area have already had planning refused fro houses for family members because of the proposed line.
- This is only the first of many developments proposed for the area, which will ruin it unless these lines are put underground
Documents
E.S.B. Powerlines and the Connection of Windfarms to the National Grid - A Presentation to the Joint Committee on Communications, Marine, and Natural Resources of the Houses of the Oireachtas. March 2005 (pdf, ~1.2mb)
Articles
Two Communities in Crisis Call Out for Support
- Article in
www.indymedia.ie
Support
for Bantry Concerned Action Group against ESB Pylon -
www.indymedia.ie