Bio-energy plant hearing continues

ONE OF the promoters of a proposed animal by-products processing plant in south Tipperary said he was confident that the facility would get enough raw materials to function.

The eleventh day of a Bord Pleanála oral hearing into a plan by consortium Green Organics Energy to build the bio-energy and bio-diesel plant halfway between Clonmel and Cashel heard that the meat industry would supply about 80% of the by-products.

GOE project manager Paul Barrett said that the plant would also take “brown bin” waste as well as meat and bone meal and waste oils from the food industry.