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Wed 05 May 2009Real partnership is stopping anyone doing anything
NEWTON'S OPTIC:AS JUNIOR Minister for Integrated Development and Sustainable Communities, with special responsibility for Innovative Enterprise and Lifelong Science, I naturally welcome the Spirit of Ireland proposals for energy independence.
However, I also have a few minor concerns. Pumping water uphill to reservoirs on the west coast using offshore wind farms, then releasing it down through hydro-electric turbines on demand, is all very well in theory. But what about the east coast? My own constituency of Upper Wicklow would be ideally suited to such an investment.
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