The Electricity Supply Board (ESB) power station at Arigna, Roscommon, could be kept open for up to fourteen years. That claim has been made locally, despite the ESB’s announcement that it will close the station within three years.

Report shows Arigna Power station with stocks of local coal.

Map of the region.

Interview with ESB Generation Manager, Bill Flood.

Interview with Jim Nolan, Chairman of Arigna ESB Staff Committee.

Mechanical lifter at coal mine.

Drumshanbo.

Interview with Father Sean Tynan, Secretary of Lough Allen Region Community Development Council.

Interview with chairman of Drumshanbo Community Council Conall Gibbons.

The reporter is Eileen Magnier.

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