WOOD ENERGY INITIATIVE MAY CREATE 1000 JOBS IN THE WEST

Date Published: 24-Sep-2009

The Western Development Commission’s Wood Energy Initiative has the potential to create up to 1,000 jobs in rural areas and generate an additional €15m per year. That's according to Minister and Galway West TD Eamon O'Cuiv speaking at the National Ploughing Championships in Athy, Co. Kildare todayThe 3 year project has received one million euro from the EU INTERREG Northern Periphery Programme, and will cost three million in totalIt will support farmers, rural enterprises and rural communities in the West to expand the wood heat sector