Failure to investigate floating wind farms is shameful

Bill Emmott, former editor-in-chief of the Economist, calls out the Irish government’s failure to investigate the huge potential offered to this country by the development of floating offshore wind platforms, suggesting that they have been trapped between a fixation that nearshore fixed turbines must be the place to start and an unwillingness to fully confront (or even investigate) the environmental consequences for some of the island’s richest spawning grounds for fish, molluscs, plankton and some of its best breeding areas for birds.