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Challenge to proposed data centre that will generate 1% of Ireland's carbon emissions dismissed
Summary
In a High Court decision on 21 July 2023, the challenge by Mannix Coyne and his daughter Amy Coyne to the approval of a 180‑megawatt data centre near their home in Bracetown, Clonee, Co. Meath, was dismissed. The Coynes alleged that the centre would produce about 1% of Ireland's annual CO₂ emissions and that the planning permission granted in July 2021 breached their constitutional rights to a healthy environment and other rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. They also claimed the decision violated planning regulations, the 2000 Planning and Development Act, the EU Directive on Environmental Impact Assessments and Habitats, and the 2015 Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act, and that it would harm their equine business. The State, An Bord Pleanala and EngineNode Ltd rejected all claims, arguing that a right to a healthy environment is not recognised under the Constitution or the ECHR.
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What: Report matter: Challenge to proposed data centre that will generate 1% of Ireland's carbon emissions dismissed. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision
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- July 2021 Other
- 2023-07-21 Publication
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