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Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Report Stage (18 Oct 2006)

Jerry Cowley: ...whereas they will get little from the project except disappointment and the pollution of their environment. A 400-acre site will be completely taken over by a petrochemical industry, a point repeated in the local newspaper by Deputy Kenny, who believes this will be the centre for the petrochemical industry. It is the game plan that everything will come through this site. When I visited...

Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (6 Apr 2006)

Jerry Cowley: ...the reason the people are so angry. The best road in the area is between two bogs, that is, the road between Ballinaboy and a bog a few kilometres down the road where it is intended to bring the peat to set up a 9 km terminal inshore, which is daft, and in the process bring this high pressure gas pipeline within a dangerous distance of people's homes. Children going to and from school and...

Job Losses. (28 Mar 2006)

Jerry Cowley: ...an example, it wants to bring ashore gas from the Corrib field but when did the Government last see the state of the Castlebar to Belmullet road? It is a dangerous dirt track, yet in one spot where peat is brought from one end of a bog to another there is a virtual highway built for Shell. I wish the Government would give the same commitment to the people of Mayo as to Shell. It is a pity...

Natural Gas Grid. (2 Jun 2005)

Jerry Cowley: ...and to insist on the construction of an off-shore terminal for the sake of the residents and the economic benefit of the area. Only today we hear that Sruwaddacon Bay is contaminated with black peat as a direct result of the preparation works at Bellanaboy for the in-shore terminal. Some 450,000 cu m of peat from the bog there is being transported to a Bord na Móna deposition site at...

Written Answers — Electricity Generation: Electricity Generation (2 Mar 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will commission an urgent feasibility study into the need to replace the existing peat power station, which is closing down with the loss of more than 200 jobs, with a new peat burning 100 megawatt power station (details supplied). [7271/05]

Live Register. (24 Feb 2005)

Jerry Cowley: Hundreds of jobs have recently been lost in Hennigans, Allergan and the Bellacorrick peat-burning station. If one considers the losses at Bellacorrick, approximately 1,000 jobs have been lost in the area in the past five years. By contrast, three new power stations are being developed in the midlands while the Bellacorrick facility is closing with the loss of more than 200 jobs. A recent...

Live Register. (24 Feb 2005)

Jerry Cowley: The loss of 1,000 jobs, including those at Bellacorrick, in five years is significant. Will the Minister give his support to the peat-burning station in Bellacorrick? The peat supplies available will provide more than 200 jobs for 15 years. This would be a wonderful development for the area, which will replace what has been taken away. The Minister's support in this regard is extremely important.