Einheimische unglücklich, da der Rat Lithium Battery Farm in Scenic Co Cork Town genehmigt
https://www.thejournal.ie/opposition-to-lithium-battery-farm-cork-6778177-Aug2025/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMAcdBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvZbBJDuChfO_8vLadVTlb23uBSe1xMmG-Rae_xoYQDS3s8705ICESPvO1Y0_aem_p9gW3CQ6wZ8Chc3joFTHrA
Von PoppedCork
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Surely this is environmentally friendly. NIMBY hypocrites
Locals are never happy about anything.
Not only is it not in the town, you’d have to go out of your way to find the thing. Nuts.
Are they worried that electrons will somehow leak into the nearby graveyard and reanimate the dead?
Every time I see a story like this, I read it, let out a sigh of relief, and then start complaining about the locals who don’t want a lithium battery farm in their village.
How can they see a bunch of container sized boxes in the middle of a field as worse than a farm? There’ll be no noises, smells or pollution, unlike the farm it replaces.
Insane cost of living and rent crisis, we sleep. New industry or windmills in our area? We go to war.
Idk if I’m tinfoiled but somehow anything remotely related to green energy immediately has „town hall protestors“ which we get for fuck all else here.
There’s a woman leading a charge objecting to this spouting absolute conspiracy theory nonsense on Facebook.
These gobshites objections included concerns over lead acid leakage… they’re lithium batteries.
Bet you all the locals don’t complain about all the farms and agricultural runoff.
Ha Newmarket. There’s fuck all scenic about the place. The battery farm is well outside the empty town anyway.
I have a few words to describe Newmarket, scenic is not one of them.
The fuck is scenic about Newmarket ?
Good! If we want to transition to green energy we have to store it somehow. That’s what these batteries do. It’s a great thing. Local opposition can get fucked.
There surely needs to be some sort of penalty brought in for NIMBYism at this stage. Think of all the housing, cycle infrastructure and public transport we’d have if NIMBYs were simply told „this project is so your grandchildren can survive. So get fucked or we’re taking a tax on you now so that they may live later.“
>The Newmarket Environmental Protection Group, which is against the development, said that the facility will impact the local environment and farming life.
>It added that the site where the facility has been approved to be developed is featured in Alice Taylor’s memoir To School Through the Fields, believed to be the best-selling book ever published in Ireland.
You couldn’t make it up. They think a site shouldn’t be developed because it was mentioned in a book.
STFU locals
„It’s going to spoil the view of the field“ is pretty much 90% of Ireland. You really need a better whine than that, otherwise we just give up building anything anywhere.
And for what it’s worth, it’ll probably look like a bunch of shipping containers parked outside a substation. The single biggest impact will be what colour they paint the fence.
Locals should be delighted to be cut off from any developments in the electrical grid so.
They’re turning the frogs gay!
It seems that everyone including the objectors have missed the main issue with battery farms. They catch fire, they do so with alarming frequency and such fires put a massive strain on local fire services.
– [North Ayrshire fire this year](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypp5q79l3o)
– [Moss landing, CA. Also this year](https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/13/1111843/battery-fire-moss-landing-power-plant/)
– [Galway, this year](https://www.independent.ie/regionals/galway/news/five-firefighters-hospitalised-in-galway-over-course-of-two-day-battle-against-battery-blaze/a1014943753.html) ( Not a farm, but a factory)
– Essex, this year. [Even before commissioning ](https://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/utility-scale-solar/fire-at-statera-s-essex-bess-project-brought-under-control-handed-back-to-site-management)
The article raises a few potentially legit concerns but really doesn’t do the due diligence to see if they’re addressed in planning permission.
legitimate concern:
„The site sits above the town, beside a 1,000-year-old graveyard, and a few hundred metres away from the **Dalua river, a designated Blue Flag river**.“
Wanting to ensure the river isn’t polluted during construction is fair.
Potentially legit:
“ the site is also near a primary school, a health centre, and a nursing home. There is narrow rural access to these local facilities, it said, and stated that locals fear emergency services may not be able to reach the site quickly if a fire or chemical incident occurred.“
Does planning permission involve constructed improvements to the roads?