News Archive - 2011
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Improving Your Home With Natural Gas
07 December 2011Over 50% of properties in the Greater Belfast area, who have gas available to them, have already made the decision to switch to natural gas from fuels like oil and coal. more »
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Reel Issues for Youth
08 November 2011Pupils from St Gemma’s High School recently took part in an education outreach event as part of the Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People. more »
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Expert Gives Advice For Winter
24 October 2011Last winter we experienced one of the most severe winters in decades, with plumbing issues leaving many households without heating or running water. Below is a recent press interview with local plumbing expert David Taylor, who is also the current President of the NI Plumbing Employer’s Federation. David discusses some of his top tips on how to prepare your home for the cold winter months ahead. more »
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Reel issues for Youth
17 October 2011Phoenix has announced its support for this year’s Coca-Cola Cinemagic International Film and Television Festival for Young People. more »
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Carbon Monoxide Awareness
17 October 2011Phoenix Energy Services recently visited the University of Ulster to promote gas safety to students. more »
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Improve Your Home Exhibition
22 September 2011On 8th and 9th October Belfast’s King’s Hall will play host to a large scale Improve Your Home exhibition which will have a wide range of companies on hand to give advice to members of the public. Despite the recent housing slump being UK wide, a Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors survey launched this year showed that people in Northern Ireland are currently the most focused on improving their properties rather than seeking to move. more »
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Success In The Pipeline For Gas Apprentice
17 August 2011A Belfast man has been heralded as the Northern Ireland’s best ‘Adult Apprentice’ for 2011 at the annual Plumbing and Mechanical Services Apprentice of The Year awards held recently at Belfast City Hall. more »
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Energy Boost For Roddensvale Kids
16 August 2011Disadvantaged children who attend Roddensvale School in Larne recently received a boost from the Energy for Children Charitable Trust - the Charity set up by Phoenix and the wider natural gas industry with the aim to help local disadvantaged children. more »
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Phoenix Helps To Energise Acceptable Enterprises
11 August 2011Acceptable Enterprises Larne (AEL), a social enterprise offering employment to local disadvantaged people, has received a big boost from Phoenix Natural Gas. more »
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Heating Help for Older People
05 August 2011With the colder Autumn/Winter months not far away, Phoenix Natural Gas recently hosted a visit from a wide range of older people’s groups. The campaigners were there to find out what the gas company can do to help older people who want to upgrade to natural gas from their current inefficient and more costly heating systems. more »
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Little Seth Energised By Gas Charity
22 July 2011Bangor boy Seth Murton (7) recently welcomed a boost from the Energy for Children Charitable Trust – the charity set up by Phoenix and the wider natural gas industry with the aim to help local disadvantaged children. The funding has enabled the Murton family to purchase equipment to create their own multi-sensory room for Seth who suffers from Tuberous Sclerosis, a complex genetic condition. more »
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Mayor Welcomes Boost For Youth Centre
14 June 2011The Strand Extreme children’s dance group based at the Doyle Youth Centre on Mountpottinger Road in Belfast have received a welcome funding boost from the Energy for Children Charitable Trust – the charity set up to help local disadvantaged children by Phoenix and the wider local natural gas industry. more »
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Powerful Help For Young Readers
25 May 2011St Patrick’s Primary School in Holywood have announced that several of their Year 5 pupils have begun a ‘Time to Read’ project in partnership with staff from Phoenix Natural Gas. more »
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Giving Old Boilers The Boot
27 April 2011For an undefined period of time a wide-ranging and privately funded Boiler Scrappage scheme has been made available to householders who wish to connect to natural gas for the first time in the Greater Belfast area. more »
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Dodds Calls for Action on Cost of Home Heating Oil
31 March 2011North Belfast DUP MP Nigel Dodds has raised the issue of the high cost of home heating oil in Northern Ireland with the Secretary of State for Energy, Chris Huhne, in the House of Commons. more »
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Boiler Scrappage Scheme welcomed
29 March 2011From 4th April a wide-ranging and privately funded Boiler Scrappage grant will be made available to householders who wish to connect to natural gas for the first time in the Greater Belfast area. more »
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Comber Embracing Fuel Choice
15 March 2011Phoenix Natural Gas has confirmed that almost 20% of householders and businesses in Comber have already connected to the mains gas network, despite gas only having been made available to most properties in the town just over a year ago. more »
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Advice from Local Heating Expert
24 February 2011With energy issues very much top of the local and global agenda, the Belfast Media Group recently interviewed Paul McKee, General Manager of Phoenix Energy Services. more »
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Minister Welcomed by Gas Apprentices
15 February 2011Danny Kennedy MLA, Minister for Employment and Learning, visited Phoenix Gas headquarters in Belfast where he met with Group Chief Executive Peter Dixon and first year Phoenix apprentices [L to R] Gavan McAteer and Daniel Payne, who are currently training under the Department's ApprenticeshipNI programme. more »
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Funding Is Music To Local Kids’ Ears
08 February 2011Holywood Family Trust has become the latest recipient of funding from the George Best Belfast City Airport’s Community Fund. Disadvantaged young people in the Holywood area are already benefiting from the purchase of an Apple Mac with hardware and software, which is now being used to facilitate DJ workshops and a media project at the Trust’s Family Centre. more »
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Advice for customers experiencing problems this Winter
06 January 2011The record freezing temperatures currently being experienced in Northern Ireland this Winter have led to record levels of natural gas usage with connection activity to the network remaining high moving into the new year. more »