€20m project defended by bio-diesel pioneer

ONE of the men behind plans to develop the Republic’s first bio-diesel plant launched a strong defence of the project yesterday.

"This is the way of the future. It has to be the way of the future," Patrick Howard said.

His family got the green light from Cork County Council planners earlier this month to build an estimated €20 million bio-diesel production plant on an 11-acre family-owned site on rolling farmland near Kildorrery in north Cork.