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SURVEYS into a proposed offshore 40-60 turbine windfarm have been given the green light to begin off the coast of Waterford. The foreshore licence was…
Government urged to ensure communities are paid for hosting offshore wind farms
Offshore wind farms require infrastructure on land (Owen Humphreys/PA)
Coastal and rural communities should be paid for hosting offshore wind farms to prevent a similar backlash to fracking, the Government has been urged.
Former energy secretaries Dame Andrea Leadsom and Amber Rudd have called for compensation for communities where onshore infrastructure such as underground cables, pylons and substations has to be built to connect offshore turbines to the grid.
They also say they support an offshore wind “ring main” where neighbouring farms in the sea work together to reduce the burden of infrastructure on communities.
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The pupils in Year 6 were visited by renewable energy company Orsted who ran the environmental workshop. The children learned about green energy, climate change and what life is like working as a renewable energy technician on the offshore windfarm. Year 6 teacher Sara Hill said: “The Orsted workshop for Year 6 was super. “The children were really interested in finding out about what it’s like to work as an Orsted Technician and asked lots of questions.” The workshop was organised through the Orsted STEM representatives, a programme which aims to raise the profile of science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects in schools.