Conservation board receives bird study for Klivaløkshagi wind farm

The Faroese Conservation Board has received a completed study of bird movements linked to a planned wind farm at Klivaløkshagi on Sandoy, KVF reports. The study examined how birds travel between nesting areas and places where they feed.

The board requested the year-long study in August last year. Sigurður í Jákupsstovu, director of the Environmental Agency, said on KVF’s Breddin programme that the report had now been submitted.

Jákupsstovu and Eyðdis Hartmann Niclasen, the minister responsible for energy, said they hoped the board would reach a conclusion soon so a decision could be made on whether the wind farm should be built. The plan is to install seven turbines.

A company belonging to Johan í Niðristovu, who also has wind turbines elsewhere, received conditional permission to install the turbines in February last year. The company cannot proceed until the Conservation Board grants permission and a building permit is issued.

The proposal was part of a wind-power expansion plan presented in spring 2024 by the then minister responsible for environmental affairs, Ingilín Didriksen Strøm. It included five proposed wind farms.