November 2009

Dr. Katherine Kelleher of the FTC Ecology Department presented a research paper at the ‘All Ireland Mammal Symposium’ (AIMS, 2009) conference in Waterford Institute Technology in November 2009.

March 2010

Donegal County Council has granted planning permission for an extension to Culliagh Wind Farm. 

March 2010

Donegal County Council has granted planning permission for Lenalea Wind Farm.

March 2010

Donegal County Council has granted planning permission for Drumnahough Wind Farm. 

March 2010

The FTC Ecology Department has completed a 6 month interim report for the Arklow Bank Wind Farm seabird and marine mammal monitoring programme.

March 2010

In March 2010 FTC submitted an EIS and planning application to Galway County Council on behalf of Coillte Teoranta for a proposed wind farm at Cloosh, Oughterard, Co. Galway.

March 2010

Fionna O’ Regan, Principal Engineer of the Renewable Energy Department has been appointed a member of the Irish Wind Energy Association’s Environment & Planning Committee. 

March 2010

Two members of FTC have successfully completed a Greenhouse Gas Management Training Programme.

February 2010

Derek Milton, Senior Scientist with the Waste and Resource Management Division of FTC, was recently voted onto the management committee for the Irish Bioenergy Association (IrBEA).

February 2010

FTC is on the WRAP framework to “Support the Delivery of Advice on the Prevention, Collection and Recycling of Municipal Waste”. FTC’s Waste Division was engaged by WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme) in the UK to provide support to Cambridgeshire Horizons and South Cambridgeshire District Council in the investigation of an innovative waste collection system for the proposed Northstowe development, 10km to the north-west of Cambridge. FTC’s remit was to review, evaluate and recommend the optimal method(s) of collecting domestic and commercial waste.