"What right has any company to place 10, 169M high turbines directly in front of my home, devaluing it by anything up to 50%?" - Vincent Ryan, Fringestown, Castletown KP, Navan, Co Meath.
Vincent Ryan, Fringestown, Castletown, Navan, Co Meath.
DEAR SIR: I have been following with great interest your recent articles and readers’ letters in relation to windfarms.
I am one of the “lucky” people in north Meath who will soon have a windfarm located less than 900 meters from my front door. This is the distance the representative of Element Power happily informed me when he tried to buy me off with €5,000.
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I decided to explore who would benefit from this development looking at all sides of the argument. I came to the conclusion that two groups of people will be the only beneficiaries.
These are the shareholders and staff of Element Power and the landowners who allow the turbines onto their land. Nobody else.
While I accept that you don’t own the view, what right has any company to place ten 169-metre-high turbines directly in front of my home, devaluing it by anything up to 50%?
Maybe my farmer neighbours might set up a fund to compensate me. After all, they are reported to be getting up to €20,000 per turbine each year in rent.
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"What right has any company to place 10, 169M high turbines directly in front of my home, devaluing it by anything up to 50%?" - Vincent Ryan, Fringestown, Castletown KP, Navan, Co Meath.
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Vincent Ryan, Fringestown, Castletown, Navan, Co Meath.
DEAR SIR: I have been following with great interest your recent articles and readers’ letters in relation to windfarms.
I am one of the “lucky” people in north Meath who will soon have a windfarm located less than 900 meters from my front door. This is the distance the representative of Element Power happily informed me when he tried to buy me off with €5,000.
I decided to explore who would benefit from this development looking at all sides of the argument. I came to the conclusion that two groups of people will be the only beneficiaries.
These are the shareholders and staff of Element Power and the landowners who allow the turbines onto their land. Nobody else.
While I accept that you don’t own the view, what right has any company to place ten 169-metre-high turbines directly in front of my home, devaluing it by anything up to 50%?
Maybe my farmer neighbours might set up a fund to compensate me. After all, they are reported to be getting up to €20,000 per turbine each year in rent.
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