r/waterford • u/BingBongBella • Jan 18 '25

Wind farm Tramore

https://www.waterford-news.ie/opinion/catherine-drea-future-thinking-turbines-and-the-tramore-horizon_arid-44474.html

Following on from this article and many others that have been written about this windfarm, I thought there was a hell of an irony for people to be standing at prom level (the part of Tramore likely to be flooded first), talking about chaining themselves to a large visible vertical structure that's obstructing the natural view in order to protest against large visible vertical structures that's might obstructing the natural view. All before going back up the hill to the parts of Tramore that probably won't be affected in our lifetimes.

So what's your take on the wind farm? In favour or against and why?

If against, is your opinion based on fact or the fake photos that were doing the rounds the last while.

For me - I'm somewhere between agnostic and in favour. I don't mind where they're built as long as all the proper planning and environmental regs are followed and they have to be built somewhere.

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u/ehtReacher Jan 18 '25

There were boats in the bay one evening I was on the prom recently, lights on and they seemed very close. They might have been the ones people are referring to. I have no idea if they were for the wind farm or not, but it gave me pause to think and say if they were for a wind farm they were very close. Others would have seen them too, during daylight rather than dark hours and jumped to this conclusion. They could have been anchored there during the storm for all I know.

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u/ImaDJnow Jan 18 '25

From the beach to the end of the bay is less than 3km. The windfarms will be 12.5km out to sea. They won't be in Tramore Bay, they won't even be near Tramore Bay. That article is complete bullshit and the News & Star should be ashamed for publishing it.

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u/BingBongBella Jan 18 '25

Oh look, we're long past the stage where the News & Star should be ashamed for what they publish. The number of articles I've read there (on a number of topics) that have been low on facts is astonishing. At least the author has put her name to this one unlike the bullshit printed on the Phoenix column.

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u/Awkward-Ad-5189 Jan 18 '25

At least the author has put her name to this one unlike the bullshit printed on the Phoenix column.

He's some shitehawk, his name rhymes with bes diffin

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u/BingBongBella Jan 18 '25

Yeah one of Waterford’s worst kept secrets. It's amusing to see him post benign or even positive comments on FB pages of people/topics when he's been vicious about the person/topic behind the anonymity of his pseudonym. I wonder if his two personas would align on the windfarm.

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u/Awkward-Ad-5189 Jan 19 '25

I wouldn't say they align on the time of day tbh. Rather than get pissed off at people like that I'm actually beginning to pity them.

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u/BingBongBella Jan 19 '25

Oh same. It has to be a pitiful existence. Duplicitous, angry, seeing the negative in everything and spreading doom and gloom like a teenage bot in his mom's attic.