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2009-07-15 00:00:00
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Five huge wind farms, as powerful as traditional power plants, will be built on the Baltic coast by 2020.
Several thousand turbines, masts, propellers will be located on artificial islands along the coast of the Baltic Sea off the northern coast of Poland.
Karpacka Mala Energetyka, Wiatropol and Generpol are closest to signing an agreement on constructing the wind farms. Together with Polish Energy Group, the companies plan to invest 16 billion zlotys (4 billion euros) in the project.
The Polish Energy Group itself wants to produce 1000 megawatts of “green energy”, which equals the amount of energy that Poland plans to draw from a nuclear power plant in Ignalina, Lithuania.
Though the drive to more renewable and sustainable forms of energy are part of the EU’s 20-20-20 plan to cut carbon emissions, environmentalists are protesting against the construction of wind turbines, claiming that they will pose a serious risk to bird life and disturb sea mammals, such as porpoises.
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