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Basking sharks cause huge Scottish offshore windfarm to be shelved
2013-12-13 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Plans to establish a major new windfarm in the waters of the Inner Hebrides have been dropped by energy company ScottishPower Renewables. The company said the Argyll Array project was currently not financially viable in the short term. It said hard rock at the site, off the coast of the island of Tiree, made it difficult to develop, while "challenging" wave conditions also impacted on the project. Another issue was the significant presence of basking sharks in the area. The site has the...
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