Construction of a Wind Turbine Foundation

This first video was taken during the construction of Glenough Wind Farm in Tipperary, Ireland. (Advice, turn your volume down, loud music!)

The turbines have a blade tip height of 125 metres, quite a bit smaller than those proposes for our mountain. Imagine this work, or something a little larger, thirteen times on the sensitive peat plateau. Then add 8km of roads and 3 quarries, plus cable trenches etc; there won’t be much of the peat bog left, water drainage will be disrupted, wildlife will be chased away.
At the end of it’s useful life, 20 to 30 years, the turbine and 1m depth of the base will be removed the rest will be buried.
To add insult to injury two other wind farms are proposed for Mynydd Maen plus one on Mynydd Llanhilleth opposite. That’s a lot of steel and concrete.d?

Below is the sort of work that will be taking place on Mynydd Maen. What a mess!

However in the case of Derrinlough wind farm, shown here, the peat bog has been used for commercial mechanised cutting of the peat for fuel so the natural habitat has been ruined prior to  the construction of the wind farm. You can see the damage the construction of 13 turbines will do to our mountain, and all for 20 to 30 year lifespan!

Next video is the construction one turbine base for the Derrinlough Wind Farm in County Offaly, Ireland has a maximum blade tip height of 185 meters

This video also shows the construction of the substation, connecting the turbines to the grid, I believe Res have not shown the full extent of this, it will be a yard, surrounded by a fence, a lot more than a small building as it appears on the application