This time last year, the High Court released a judgment in a wind farm planning case which threatened to upend the decision-making processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála (ACP) and all other state bodies covered by the Climate Act of 2015.  An “immediate end to business as usual” was required, Justice Richard Humphreys said, in the face of the climate emergency. He ruled that ACP was wrong to refuse planning permission to Coolglass Wind Farm Ltd for a 13-turbine development in Co Laois. The sweeping decision, and its importance, ensured that the case would go all the way to the Supreme…

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