The Irish Supreme Court has upheld a High Court ruling that the country’s national planning authority failed to consider climate objectives properly when it refused planning permission for Statkraft’s Coolglass project.
The long-awaited decision centers on a roughly 80W 13-turbine proposal in County Laois.
At the heart of the case was whether or not An Coimisiún Pleanála adequately considered authority granted to it under the 2015 Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act to approve the project in favor of climate targets, even if approval contravened local development plans.