THE country’s main domestic gas provider is being allowed to put up its prices by 8.5%, following on a 20% price increase over the last year.

About 100 construction and engineering jobs are being created on the controversial Corrib gas project.

The Garda watchdog has urged the force’s chief to take disciplinary action against one officer over an investigation into the “rape tape” controversy.

YOUR report headlined ‘FG calls on Government to increase gas storage’ (April 14) quotes a spokesman for the Department of Energy as saying “the development of the Corrib Gas field would also provide a new source of gas supply which could meet up to 60% of our annual demand in its early years of operation”.

Controversial pipe-laying work is due to begin in Broadhaven Bay in Co Mayo today as part of the Corrib gas project.

GAS flows from the Corrib gas field in future years are unlikely to lead to lower fuel charges for customers who are facing further price increases for gas and electricity early next year.

Shell Ireland has said a fire near its Corrib gas terminal at Bellanaboy in Co Mayo was malicious and was not accidental.

Campaigners against the construction of the Corrib gas field will stage a protest in Dublin today.

The global oil giant Shell is set to unveil a number of possible alternative routes for the controversial Corrib gas pipeline today.

Plans to grant an operating licence for the controversial Corrib gas onshore terminal in Co Mayo were tonight facing further delays after over 10 objections were lodged.

A man and a woman are being questioned at Belmullet Garda station charged with public order offences at the Corrib gas terminal in Mayo this morning.

Three men have been arrested this morning while taking part in the ongoing protest at the site of the Corrib gas terminal in Bellanaboy, Co Mayo.

Protests at the Corrib gas terminal continue this morning as 170 gardaí arrive to escort Shell employees to the site.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern must intervene in the troubled talks process over the controversial Corrib gas project, it was claimed tonight.

THE local water supply in north Mayo is being polluted by aluminium run-offs from a Shell gas refinery, anti-pipeline activists claimed yesterday.

The controversial Corrib gas field off Co Mayo must be developed to supply Ireland’s future energy needs, the Progressive Democrats claimed today.

The battle to stop energy company Shell building a controversial gas pipeline on the Co Mayo coast has only just begun, protesters claimed today.

Five men jailed for refusing to end their protest against a controversial gas pipeline are due back in court today, as the Government launches a new safety review of the project.

A PROPOSAL which could break the impasse in the dispute which has kept the “Rossport Five” in prison for the past 12 days is to come before the High Court on Thursday.

Supporters of the five men jailed over opposition to a gas pipeline being built across their Co Mayo lands today handed in a letter calling for the resignation of a minister.

The €200m Corrib Gas Field project was tonight approved by An Bord Pleanala.

THE new body which will oversee key national infrastructure projects may speed up controversial projects like incinerators, chemical plants and oil refineries.