Mr Justice Richard Humphreys of the planning and environment section of the High Court delivered a judgment this Friday that was an unqualified success for developer Coolglass Wind Farm in a judicial review against An Bord Pleanála. The decision affirms the superiority of legally enshrined climate goals over local authorities’ planning objectives. The case was taken “both on fact-specific grounds and on broader grounds,” wrote Mr Justice Humphreys, referring to the fact that it challenged the State’s compliance with its own, far-reaching climate legislation. In making the judgment, he wrote that the climate emergency is a problem “so big that to…

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