OFFALY County Council has turned down an application for a 150m high wind turbine on land close to the Tullamore bypass. A Dublin-based company, Natural Forces .
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Wind turbine plans power ahead in Midlands
Seventy-nine more turbines have green light to go ahead in Offaly
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If all the wind farms currently permitted in Offaly are developed, the number of turbines in the county will rise from 35 to 114.
At present there are just three wind farms in Offaly and one of those, Bord na Móna s facility at Mountlucas, has 29 turbines.
There are four turbines in the Meenwaun wind farm, which is located at Garbally between Banagher and Birr, and two at Leabeg, Boora.
In total, those three wind farms have a maximum electricity generation capacity of 98.5MW (the West Offaly peat-fired power station in Shannonbridge was a 150MW plant).
Motorist sentenced to three months imprisonment after Offaly traffic accident
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An Offaly man was sentenced to three months imprisonment and disqualified from holding a driving licence for four years, during a recent sitting of Tullamore District Court.
Colin Hanniffy, Leabeg, Tullamore was charged with dangerous driving, drink driving and failing to remain at the scene.
Sgt James O Sullivan told the court that just outside Boora village on December 29 last, Mr Hanniffy nearly collided with another vehicle, drove into a ditch, got out of his crashed vehicle, got into another vehicle belonging to him which was parked nearby and drove off. The sergeant said the other driver had to swerve out of the way just before the defendant drove into the ditch. “His jeep was driving on the wrong side of the road.”