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 4658506
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I recently visited the companies involved in the mid-Ulster biorefinery cluster to discuss their plans to create a nutrient energy and carbon services sector based on a centralised agricultural feedstock biorefinery. I was interested to hear about the project and the opportunities and challenges that the cluster faces. I have agreed to schedule a round-table meeting with the biorefinery cluster and senior officials from my Department, the Department for Infrastructure and DAERA to facilitate a discussion on a range of issues, including planning, single farm payments and nutrient management policy. I was also pleased to see that the project was recently awarded £4 million by DAERA under its sustainable utilisation of livestock slurry phase 2 project, which will fund mobile slurry separators to produce feedstock for anaerobic digestion.
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