Way up on the blanket bog of the Tawnawully Mountains, clustered amid dense conifer plantations, sit 16 oval concrete structures, some covered with tarp, others left to brace the elements of the often harsh Donegal climate. The structures are the foundational bases for 16 of the 19 wind turbines under construction at the Meenbog wind farm. The turbines themselves are gathering dust in storage. Progress with the wind farm was dramatically halted on November 12, 2020, when disaster struck in this isolated patch of mountain on the Donegal-Tyrone border. That morning, a large section of the peat-rich soil began to…

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