Debate contribution: Biomethane: Economic Opportunities
Debate contribution by Mr Conor Murphy on .
- MLA
- Mr Conor Murphy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 12 November 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Biomethane: Economic Opportunities
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4658502
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Text
Research indicates that, due to our large agriculture sector, we have significant potential to use biomethane to support our path to net zero. Biomethane can provide a locally produced and sustainable source of energy that could help to decarbonise the gas network and transport while enhancing the security of our energy supply and improving waste management practices. Biomethane could present significant economic opportunities for the rural economy by creating good jobs, raising productivity and addressing historical regional imbalances. There is also potential to develop new revenue streams from by-products of the production process, such as digestate and biogenic CO2. My Department is currently working towards a policy framework to support the development of an economic and sustainable biomethane sector.
119 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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