* FAN: Bord na Mona Chairman John Horgan flies over the site of the new 40MW wind farm development at Bruckana on Bord na Mona's cutaway peatland on the laois, Kilkenny, Tipperary borders yesterday. The company has unveiled a billion euro energy export plan to turn bogs across counties Offaly and Kildare into wind farms. It will use 20,000 hectares of land it holds to sell electricity to the UK and Europe - enough to power one million homes. It said the development will see 3,000 jobs created during seven years of construction and 200 maintenance and operations jobs when the scheme is up and running in 2020
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