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# green-energy - Monday 14 May, 2018
Column: 'We are haemorrhaging €5-6bn per year to pay for expensive and dirty fuels'
Our government itself is the biggest fossil fuel addict, given all of the excise duty and carbon taxes it collects, writes Grattan Healy.
# green-energy - Sunday 28 May, 2017
By 2018, transport fleets like Bus Éireann will have green energy buses
Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and school buses will have sustainable-energy buses in their fleet by 2018.
# green-energy - Tuesday 1 November, 2016
# green-energy - Wednesday 5 October, 2016
8 words for weather that only exist in Ireland
Repeat after us: Tá an ghrian ag scoilteadh na gcloch…
# green-energy - Friday 23 September, 2016
# green-energy - Sunday 6 December, 2015
The tallest building in the world will be an Iraqi skyscraper
With its iconic ‘veil’ of solar panels, the four-tower behemoth will produce as much energy as it consumes — a breakthrough in tall-building design.
# green-energy - Thursday 30 October, 2014
ESB wants its government owners to axe wind and solar power support
Targets and backing for the renewable-energy sources should end after 2020, the state supplier says.
# green-energy - Wednesday 3 September, 2014
How cooking with coal and wood fires is killing millions around the world
…Especially women and children.
# green-energy - Thursday 31 July, 2014
ESB power stations cut CO2 emissions by 1.5 million tonnes last year
Despite the good figures, Eamon Ryan is worried about a “lack of political will” on renewable energy.
# green-energy - Tuesday 15 July, 2014
Laois group raises €40k for wind farm resistance
People Over Wind want to launch a legal challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s granting of planning permission for the Cullenagh Wind Farm project.
# green-energy - Tuesday 8 July, 2014
Co Clare wave energy project awarded €23m to develop technology
ESB-led renewable energy project aims to generate electricity by 2018.
# green-energy - Wednesday 14 May, 2014
Opinion: A green lifestyle is a nice but trivial gesture – we must focus on nuclear fusion
Is nuclear fusion the answer to the world energy crisis? It might be the only future hope to power our planet.
# green-energy - Monday 12 May, 2014
More turbines or less? Coal, wave, solar? Have your say
The government wants to know how you feel about the future of energy in Ireland.
# green-energy - Tuesday 15 April, 2014
Government accused of using 'spin' to take attention away from wind farm protests
Campaigners claim that nothing has changed after the weekend’s announcement that a deal couldn’t reached with the UK on wind energy export.
# green-energy - Thursday 10 April, 2014
New website holds microscope to "industry-driven" wind energy production in Ireland
Wind Area Ireland is a launching a site today that it hopes will become a resource for communities, journalists, and policy-makers.
# green-energy - Thursday 9 January, 2014
Permission refused for Offaly wind farm
An Bord Pleanála said the ten 110 metre wind turbines at Cloghan would injure the visual amenities of the area.
# green-energy - Monday 12 August, 2013
IKEA to invest in Leitrim wind farm to power Irish stores
The new facility in Carrickeeny will have the capacity to generate the equivalent electricity for approximately 5,500 houses a year.
# green-energy - Friday 26 April, 2013
Gas from a dump in Kildare to become electricity for 14,000 houses
Bord na Móna is building a landfill gas power plant at the Drehid facility near Allenwood, with production beginning next year.
# green-energy - Monday 8 April, 2013
90% of construction industry insiders believe wind should be primary energy source
A survey has shown that most industry insiders also think €100 or higher would be a fair water charge for a four person household.
# green-energy - Wednesday 28 November, 2012
European Investment Bank provides €155m loan to Bord Gáis for wind farms
It is expected that the new expansion programme will increase the operational wind capacity of Bord Gáis by more than 50 per cent.
# green-energy - Friday 23 November, 2012
Potential for 10,000 extra jobs in green economy by 2015 - Bruton
The Green economy is worth more than €3 trillion worldwide and employs more than 30 million people.
Engineer challenges legality of renewable energy plan in High Court
Pat Swords claims the public have been denied their legal right to participate in planning and funding decisions for green energy projects.
# green-energy - Sunday 29 April, 2012
Column: Why I'm bringing the DeLorean back - as an electric car
Electricity is more readily available and cheaper than petrol, but people need to be converted to electric cars and realise that you can still get high performance from those vehicles, writes Stephen Wynne.
# green-energy - Friday 15 July, 2011
Enda Kenny announces 145 new jobs in green energy
The positions will be created over the next three years at a Galway firm making small wind turbines for homes and farms.
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COMMUTERS WHO HOLD an annual TaxSaver travel ticket will have it extended for six months due to the travel restrictions imposed in recent months as a result of Covid-19.
Many people rely on public transport for work and other reasons, and service providers are implementing precautionary measures such social distancing in a bid to keep passengers safe.
It is also mandatory to wear face coverings on public transport, but not everyone is and some people are still uncomfortable using buses, trains or trams amid the pandemic.
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Open Letter from Ireland's psychologists: 'Direct Provision is causing untold psychological harm'
By Psychologists for Social Change Ireland
“As a country we must do better,” according to about 150 signatories.
What we can learn from the world's 'Blue Zones' - where people regularly live into their 90s and 100s
By Professor Ciaran O’Boyle
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