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Bord na Móna has announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will see AWS become the first business to join the Bord na Móna Eco Energy Park in the Midlands, subject to regulatory and planning consent.

Bord na Mona has stepped in after SSE Renewables pulled out of a consortium to build a €54 million state-of-the-art hydrogen gas hub in Galway’s docks.

Tourism projects in County Roscommon and the Ballinasloe Municipal District of East Galway will now be able to access a new €68m fund allocated to Fáilte Ireland as part of the EU’s Just Transition Funding.

Bord na Móna has been busy welcoming back winter visitors to its peatlands across the Midlands region - Sean Doyle, a member of the Ecology Team finding evidence of the Common Crane at a new site in the River Shannon floodplain.

The Midland’s Region is set to receive an economic boost following the announcement that Bord na Móna is to develop Ireland’s first dedicated renewable energy business park on 3,000 hectares of its landbank in Westmeath and immediate surrounding counties.

Local Minister of Stete, Deputy Robert Troy, Minister for State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment has launched the Bord na Móna funded Accelerate Green Programme.

Castledaly native, Brendan Kelly, has been appointed to the role of Commercial Manager at Bord na Móna.

Common cranes which set up home on a rewetted Bord na Móna Midlands peatland earlier this year successfully hatched two baby chicks in May, the first recorded birth of Crane chicks in Ireland in over 300 years.

Just two out of every five jobs promised within Bord na Mona for bog rehabilitation work across the Midland counties have been filled, according to a Dáil reply received by local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten.

Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform, Malcolm Noonan, and Brian Lucas, from National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) visited Crosswood Bog, which stretches from Junction 8 on the M6 to Glynwood, to see at first hand the restoration works being carried out by Bord na Móna, as part of the NPWS Raised Bog Restoration Programme.