Natural Resources Minister Eamon Ryan will today aim to forge new links with 'green tech' firms based in Silicon Valley in the US.

A revolutionary new harbour costing €14m has been completed on one of the Aran Islands.

The state’s standards watchdog today rapped Minister for Enterprise Micheal Martin on the knuckles for ordering a civil servant to attend a Fianna Fail parliamentary party meeting.

THE Government should put its money where its mouth is and tell consumers when their electricity bills will fall and by how much, a consumer champion said yesterday.

WITH Taoiseach Bertie Ahern likely to go to the country in May, there was a strong whiff of electioneering in the air as the White Paper on Energy was launched yesterday in a sunburst of green politics from the Government.

THE go-ahead has been given for a new power plant to be built in County Cork to compete with the ESB and bring fresh competition to the electricity market.

Green Party leader Trevor Sargent is blaming Natural Resources Minister Noel Dempsey for the ongoing protests at the site of the Corrib gas terminal in Co Mayo.

ON a wet, overcast day in late October, the impression might be that we get hardly any sunshine. But, solar energy in Ireland is not a myth and we are not short of solar energy resources.

IT was great to see workers on site at the Ballinaboy gas terminal.

ENERGY Minister Noel Dempsey was last night urged to act over spiralling gas bills after an Irish Examiner investigation showed prices in Ireland are almost double those in Britain.

The Geological Survey of Ireland has warned that Ireland will experience more landslide activity in the coming years due to factors like climate change and increased development.

The man appointed by the Government to mediate between Shell and the Rossport Five has recommended that the Corrib gas pipeline be re-routed.

MARINE stakeholders were urged yesterday to feed into an independent review of Ireland’s €700 million seafood industry to ensure its future profitability and sustainability.

IRELAND’S demand for energy must be reduced by one-fifth within the next 15years, the country’s engineers said yesterday.

TEN of Ireland’s leading companies have committed themselves to conserving energy and tackle high costs under a major new scheme.

Ten of Ireland’s leading companies today committed themselves to conserve energy and tackle high costs under a major new scheme.

A new initiative is being launched to up electricity production from renewable energy technology.

A number of independent TDs have issued a joint call for Natural Resources Minister Noel Dempsey to resign over his handling of the Corrib gas pipeline situation.

PROTESTORS yesterday blockaded the entrance to Shell’s Irish headquarters with bicycles as part of an international campaign against the Corrib gas pipeline.

The so-called Rossport Five have decided to cease their cooperation with the man appointed to mediate in their dispute with the global oil firm Shell.

A study commissioned by the Government in an effort to alleviate public concern about the Corrib gas pipeline has expressed concerns about the safety of the controversial structure.

The so-called Rossport Five are due to appear before the High Court this afternoon amid fresh hope that they may be released from prison.

The Government has made a renewed offer to appoint a mediator in the dispute over the controversial Corrib gas pipeline in Co Mayo.

The Government tonight ruled out hiring a mediator to break the deadlock in the Rossport Five dispute with Shell over an inshore gas pipeline.

Shell must free the Rossport Five by immediately lifting its court injunction against them, it was claimed today.

A company was appointed today to conduct an independent safety review of the controversial Corrib Gas pipeline in Co Mayo.

THE Government has offered Shell a 16-year licence to drill for oil and gas off the Co Donegal coast.

The Government has offered Shell a 16-year licence to drill for oil and gas off the Co Donegal coast, it emerged today.

THE Green Party has urged the Government to scrap excise duty on biofuels and has called for the State’s fleet of ministerial cars to be converted to run on biodiesel.

THE Oireachtas Communications Committee is to hold urgent hearings on the Corrib gas saga, provided the five men jailed as a result of the dispute purge their contempt.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern is “too busy” to meet with councillors in Mayo to discuss the case of the five men imprisoned because of their opposition to the controversial Corrib gas pipeline.

THE Government was accused of favouring ‘big business’ over people last night after Natural Resources Minister Noel Dempsey granted oil giant Shell permission to construct the offshore section of the controversial Corrib gas pipeline.

Natural Resources Minister Noel Dempsey has given the global oil firm Shell permission to build the offshore section of its planned gas pipeline in Co Mayo.

A TOTAL of 56 jobs are to be axed at the site of a controversial gas pipeline on the Mayo coast, it was confirmed yesterday.

Natural Resources Minister Noel Dempsey is reportedly seeking legal advice about work on the Corrib gas pipeline carried out by the oil firm Shell.

Noel Dempsey, the Natural Resources Minister, has accused the company behind the controversial gas pipeline in Co Mayo of breaching the consents given to it to carry out work at the site in Ballinaboy.

Natural Resources Minister Noel Dempsey has ordered a new safety review of the planned Corrib gas pipeline in Co Mayo.

The jailing of five Co Mayo men for blocking work on a Shell gas pipeline is regrettable, but the court’s decision must be respected, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today.

The Government has introduced new measures in an effort to ensure that consumers are not adversely affected by the deregulation of the electricity supply market.

IRELAND has stocks of 2.1 million tonnes of oil - enough to match normal imports over a 109-day period.

Natural Resources Minister Dermot Ahern has signed an agreement with the British government to link the Republic's national gas infrastructure with Northern Ireland.

Fishing groups have lobbied the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to restore marine interests to a full ministerial post.

THE price of electricity will be increased by up to 2% under Government plans to reduce greenhouse gases, and which were submitted to the European Commission yesterday.

Politicians and businessmen from both sides of the border have met in Co Louth to discuss plans to establish an all-Ireland energy market.