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Van Oord and Saare Wind Energy plan to start the Environmental Impact Assessment for the site once they have received a 50-year building permit from the national government.<\/p>\n
The government had\u00a0refused to start the permitting process<\/a>\u00a0for the planned 100-turbine site due to national security concerns in April 2019.<\/p>\n The project is planned for a site\u00a0off the west coast of the island of Saaremaa.<\/p>\n Saare Wind Energy had challenged the government in court, but both parties requested that it be aborted\u00a0before the case could be heard.<\/p>\n One of the developer\u2019s owners, planning and environmental consultant Kuido Kartau, told\u00a0Windpower Monthly<\/em>\u00a0that Saare\u2019s negotiations with the Estonian Investment Agency had helped allay the government’s fears the developer could be manipulated by unfriendly states or investors.<\/p>\n Sulev Alaj\u00f5e, a consultant at the investment agency, explained it had provided the government with a record of the developer\u2019s contact with interested investors before the court hearing being scrapped.<\/p>\n