RTE reports that Galway City Council has secured funding from the EU to undertake the installation of three small hyrdo electric turbines along the underused waterways of the city.
It is an interesting initiative, especially in light of legislation requiring historic mill owners to pay for water abstraction for water removed from a watercourse to pass through their mill, notwithstanding that the water is returned to the watercourse in full a short distance later.
In addition, the wholesale destruction of mill dams will be undertaken in due course on foot of State instructions to prioritise fish.