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Shetland windfarm project suffers court setback over rare bird
2013-10-03 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The future of a proposed windfarm on Shetland touted as one of the most productive in the world has been thrown into doubt in a legal battle over a rare wading bird and an obscure part of British energy law. A judge in Edinburgh has ruled that the Viking windfarm project, set to be one of the largest in the UK, should not have been given planning consent last year, in a victory for local anti-windfarm campaigners. Lady Clark ruled that ministers had failed to follow an EU birds directive when they...
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