Eight companies chosen for Bord na Móna’s new sustainability accelerator
Businesses include EV charging, hydroponic farming and renewable energy enterprises
At least 7.5m tonnes of carbon captured by peatlands rehabilitated in 2021
Bord na Móna confirms another 5,200 hectares of peatlands have been restored
Bord na Móna looks to fast track innovation journey with accelerator
Semi-state may take a stake in companies selected for Acelerate Green programme
Bord na Móna plans renewable energy business park for midlands
Energy park planned for site near Rochfortbridge, Co Westmeath
Bord na Móna records €22m profit last year, its first since 2017
State company notes early benefit of strategic shift into recycling and renewables
Bord na Móna making progress in move from brown to green
Transition cannot be denied, as 80% of its operations now focus on renewable energy
Bord na Móna planning 885 new jobs in the midlands
Firm says it will be able to supply a third of Irish homes with renewable energy by 2030
Bord na Móna ends all peat harvesting
Company suspended the activity last year following a 2019 High Court decision
Bord na Móna begins building €100m Offaly wind farm
New power plant will supply 55,000 homes with electricity
Bord na Móna to raise €1.6bn for climate action projects
Semi-State on track to achieve 300% increase in its renewable energy output in this decade
Bord na Móna windfarms worth €170m secure capacity in State auction scheme
Projects represent 25% of capacity awarded and will power 100,000 homes
Bord na Móna’s future turf-cutting plans bogged down in legal confusion
State company has seven applications before An Bord Pleanála for ‘substitute consent’
Losses at Bórd na Móna more than halved last year to €22.5m
The State company also managed to eliminate debt, clearing almost €24m in liabilities during the year
Ictu criticises BNM for failing to help staff following peat job losses
Committee told of inferior employment alternatives and pension fund failings
More than half a million trees to be planted on former boglands
The focus will be on native woodland trees such as Downy Birch, Scots Pine and Alder
Bord na Móna chief hints at widespread job cuts
Donnellan tells unions State company faces ‘dire future’ unless sustainability addressed
Bord na Móna letter has ‘heightened’ concerns for workers, union says
Chief executive says lay-offs at Mountdillon will cease until it has ‘greater clarity’
New Bord na Móna chief paid €308,000 in his first year
Semi-State company, which is moving away from peat, lost €50m in its last financial year
Bord na Móna loses €50m in 12 months
State company is spending millions as it moves to greener businesses
Former briquette factory repurposed for plastic recycling
Bord na Móna’s facility in Co Tipperary will employ 40 people
Why peatlands matter in the battle against climate change
Living peatlands sequester carbon-dioxide, drawing it down from the atmosphere through plants and trapping it underground as carbon
Bord na Móna not ‘climate change deniers’ over impact of peat
Semi-State firm last month said over 400 jobs to go as it seeks to reduce carbon footprint
Nearly 500 Bord na Móna jobs to go as semi-State closes 17 active bogs
Union says even though workers knew the cuts were coming, people are ‘shocked with the extent of the numbers’
Up to 430 jobs to go at Bord na Móna as strategy shifts to renewable
Union warns Government is ‘sleepwalking into a crisis which will devastate Midlands’
Telecoms executive named as Bord na Móna chief
Clare native Tom Donnellan will relocate from France to State company
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