People’s lives are being put at risk from illegal tampering with gas meters in a bid to save on fuel bills, according to Bord Gáis Networks safety personnel.

Ten thousand homes were affected by major disruption to the water supply on the northside of Cork City yesterday which forced the closure of at least one school.

Some 805 households had their electricity cut off while 731 lost their gas supply for non-payment of bills, figures for April show.

If the vital upgrade to the national grid is not carried out the whole country will face blackouts, according to Gridlink project manager John Lowry.

Cork is set to lead a national drive towards greater transport energy efficiency over the next decade.

The sale of a division of Bord Gáis is back on the table about two weeks after the Government gave up the hunt for a buyer.

Savings of €50m in transport fuel bills could be achieved annually through the conversion of municipal and agri-food waste into biomethane.

Cork is poised to lead a transport energy revolution, one of the country’s leading energy bosses has predicted.

Leading Irish designer Joanne Hynes was among the top designers who showcased their work at a unique gathering of up-and-coming designers in Limerick last night.

Bord Gáis Éireann has announced that it has commenced the sale process for Bord Gáis Energy, its energy business, and will be issuing an information memorandum to potential bidders.

The new Irish Water Company is publishing an e-tender today soliciting bids from firms to run its call centre, which will employ 400 people by the end of 2016.

Negotiations are under way between the NTMA and Bord Gáis over how members of the company’s employee share ownership trust (ESOT) will be treated when it is part privatised later this year.

There is increasing uncertainty over the status of negotiations between Bord Gáis chief executive John Mullins and the semi-state body over his future role with the company.

The country’s first natural gas-powered bus has hit the streets of Cork in a trial that could ultimately help Bus Éireann slash its soaring fuel bill by up to 50%.

Cheaper energy, job creation and the diversity and security of energy supply are being thrown back in the faces of foreign investors, according to the US-owned Shannon LNG.

The terms and conditions of more than 250 workers at Balfour Beatty in Dublin have been protected after unions agreed a cost-saving agrement with management.

Energy Minister Pat Rabbitte has ruled out intervening in the row between the energy regulator and the company behind the €800m plan for a liquidified gas terminal on the Shannon estuary.

Bord Gáis Networks yesterday warned of higher gas prices, totalling €40m per annum to consumers.

Irish Water is going to be the biggest and could be the most important State-owned asset created by an Irish government.

Bord Gáis says it can save €120m in start-up costs if it is given the task of establishing the proposed national Irish Water utility — expected to serve more than 1.5m customers by 2014.

Engineering services firm Balfour Beatty CLG is to seek up to 76 redundancies as part of a restructuring of its operations.

AS an island nation, energy costs and energy sources for transport matter more to us than to most other countries: being competitive while keeping the wheels of motion and transport oiled means considering alternatives to oil and fossil-based fuels.

BUDDING technology entrepreneurs and small hi-tech and internet businesses in Cork are being offered a chance to show their wares on a trade mission to Chicago next year.

Killorglin: FEXCO, the privately owned outsourcing provider, said it has achieved unprecedented success by winning three contact centre industry awards in Britain and Ireland.

BORD GÁIS has won three coveted international awards at the CCA (Customer Contact Association) Excellence Awards 2010.

A division of Bord Gáis Networks is to roll out an ultra high-speed fibre optic network which will link Dublin to the west of Ireland.

SEVERAL towns and villages in Cork and Tipperary are to be connected to a natural gas network.

Independent natural gas network operator, Gaslink, has extended its natural gas network to four more towns in counties Tipperary, Cork and Meath.

Bord Gáis has won an award for ‘Best Customer Experience’ in the UK and Ireland.

Flogas has today announced that it is offering new residential customers a 9% saving on the price currently charged by Bord Gais for its natural gas.

BORD Gáis unveiled three possible routes last night for a proposed €60 million pipeline to increase gas supply to the south.

Household gas prices are to go down by almost 11% today, the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) said.

Bord Gáis has unveiled a €40m project to bring gas to 11 towns in Galway and Mayo.

THE Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) has given its backing to a €1.55 billion investment in the natural gas network which will see the full opening of the gas market to competition and connection of 150,000 new customers to the network over the next five years.

SNEAKY is the only word to describe a two-edged gas price hike which has left hapless customers facing a double whammy.