Limerick Biogas Concern Group

12/11/2025

A renewable energy company has appealed a Tipperary County Council decision to grant planning permission for a home for a local woman and her family.

11/11/2025

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An accident at a biogas plant on Funen Island, Denmark, has resulted in two deaths, reported Xinhua. Local police confirmed that several others sustained serious injuries. The accident took place at Flemlose Biogas Plant, which is about 200km west of Copenhagen. Danish police confirmed the accident....

13/09/2025

As Ireland ramps up anaerobic digestion (AD) to meet its National Biomethane Strategy target of ~5.7 TWh by 2030 (requiring up to 200 industrial-scale AD plants), there are growing concerns that regulation, oversight, and community protection aren't keeping pace. Read about problems already encountered by AD plants here, and why government guidelines, and an overall strategy, are essential.

Introduction Ireland is undertaking a significant expansion of Anaerobic Digestion (AD) facilities as part of its broader shift towards renewable energy production. Alongside solar and wind, biomet…

29/08/2025

⚠️ This is not NIMBYism – this is a warning. ⚠️

An estimated 40,000–50,000 fish were lost in the recent River Blackwater disaster following an environmental leak (The Journal, Aug 2025).

If something similar were to happen in Killough, it would not only threaten wildlife — it could also put human health at risk. The proposed biogas plant would sit directly on a regionally significant aquifer. The Geological Survey describes the ground as “extremely vulnerable” and “easily polluted”, with no natural protection in the limestone terrain.

That means a leak could spread underground, contaminating wells, farmland, and rivers across the wider community.

Even the developer’s own Environmental Impact Assessment notes that accidents and contamination risks must be considered.

👉 Killough Quarry is simply the wrong place for a biogas plant.

https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/river-blackwater-fish-6799511-Aug2025/

17/08/2025

Did you know that many European governments subsidise Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plants to keep them financially viable? Our latest blog post explores how some countries do it - and why Ireland needs to get it right before expanding in industrial AD facilities.

Anaerobic Digestion (AD) plants turn organic waste into biomethane – a renewable gas that can heat homes, fuel vehicles, and cut carbon emissions. To get these plants constructed and running,…

16/07/2025

Great questions from Deputy Ryan O'Meara about regulation for the Biogas Industry

27/06/2025

25/06/2025

Guess what day it is today everyone. It's the first National Biomethane Day in Ireland sponsored by Nephin Renewable Gas and AB Energy.

This is the latest PR effort by the biomethane industry who have been lobbying the government for a number of years now. The industry seems to have unfettered access to Ministers as demonstrated by Alan Dillon's presence at the event today. See below where Charlie Mc Conologue announced grants for the industry last year.

The biomethane lobby have previously secured a promise from the goverment of 40 million of our tax payers money for any company establishing a biogas facility here in Ireland. (This is why lobbying pays off for privately held companies to secure money from the public purse). Why do they not go to the banks? The banks practise due dilligence. Our Government
does not - as per the National Children's Hospital.

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-agriculture-food-and-the-marine/press-releases/minister-mcconalogue-announces-opening-of-applications-for-40-million-biomethane-capital-grant/

However what is not secured is REGULATIONS for the biomethane industry. The Government seems reluctant to put regulations in place in their rush to have 150-200 of these industrial sized facilities in place mainly for data centres and secondly for 2030 targets etc.

All the communities affected in the National Biogas Concern Group Ireland do not want to be the Mica/Pyrite issue in 10-15 years from now when most of the decision makers today in Government will be long gone.

Again we are asking the government to protect the people of Ireland in establishing regulations re: siting of biogas facilities, health and safety, giving the EPA actual powers to close down any biogas facility in the event of a pollution/explosion event.

24/06/2025

17/06/2025

The head of an oil and gas company pushing to bring liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Ireland has said he would never want to live beside an LNG facility for fear it would blow up.