Veolia Ireland eyeing more contracts and takeovers

Veolia Ireland is looking to follow up its recent contract to operate a huge biomass power plant in Mayo with similar project wins in Dublin and Belfast.

The resource management company — which provides water, waste and energy management solutions —hopes to be operating the Dublin and Belfast plants by 2019, two years after the Mayo facility is up and running.

Yesterday, Veolia announced the creation of 300 new jobs to come on stream over the next five years, which will boost its Irish workforce to 800.