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90% of Irish adults don’t know the Irish forestry industry can supply enough wood to build over #44,000 new Irish homes p.a. 2/3 of people don’t know 80%* of global construction wood comes from conifer/softwood trees not hardwoods like mahogany. Over 1/3 Irish adults don’t know wood has a lower carbon footprint than concrete or &hellip
Increased CCTV and surveillance in operation at known forest dumping blackspots
€2 million* spent by Coillte on forest clean ups in the past five years
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), in partnership with Coillte, have launched a nationwide tree planting initiative as part of Science Week 2019. Focussing on climate action, Science Week 2019 is seeking to help people understand climate change, how science and technology can help us create a positive climate future and the impact we as individuals can &hellip
* Coillte to test the market and crystallise the value of investments made in its wind farms over the last four years * Invested €25m in existing operating wind farms over the last four years * In the current strong market Coillte believe these assets will achieve a value in excess of €125m * Later in &hellip
UPDATE FROM COILLTE REGARDING ISSUES WITH FARM FORESTRY PARTNERS Vast Majority of 630 farm partnerships working well Review of contracts shows that there are no cases where farm partners have not been paid what they are due Communication with all farm partners will be improved and a new level of transparency on calculations and payments &hellip
Ambitious renewable energy target to develop 1 GigaWatt (GW) of future wind projects IBI and Capricorn provisionally appointed as joint advisers as Coillte considers options to enhance value Coillte today announced that in order to optimise its renewable energy strategy it will explore a range of partnership and/or joint venture models in relation to its &hellip