Rose Energy Decision a Savage Blow to Agric Sector
21 December 2012
Reacting to the news that DOE Minister Alex Attwood has rejected the proposed Rose Energy incinerator TUV leader Jim Allister said:
“This is a savage blow to agricultural sector which suggests that the Department is utterly out of touch with the needs of the poultry industry and the threats posed by noncompliance with EU requirements. With no realistic alternative available for litter disposal the Minister has put the sector in an impossible position.
“Questions which I tabled to the Department of Agriculture some time ago demonstrated that that the supposed alternatives to the Rose Energy Project are untested, unviable and unaffordable.
“Successive ministers have dragged their heels on this application and now finally Mr Attwood has kicked the poultry sector in the face.”
