Kildare biogas plant meeting cancelled for second time
A representation of the biogas plant
An event billed as a “community meeting” for the development of a biogas plant in south Kildare has been cancelled for the second time.
CycleØ announced that the hotel have declined to host the event “at the last minute” on Tuesday evening on their Facebook.
The event was supposed to take place on Wednesday afternoon in the Talbot Hotel in Carlow.
Last month, CycleØ had planned to hold the event at the Clanard Court Hotel in Athy.
However, the hotel also withdrew its booking indicating it did not wish to prejudice its reputation in the community.
CycleØ plan to build the plant at Ballyvass, halfway between Castledermot and Kilkea, as part of an €100m plan to finance, build, and operate four such sites in Kildare, Cavan, Galway and Limerick.
Opposition to the project has been growing in the area since the project was announced.
The company say the Kildare project would produce in the region of 40GWh (Giga-Watt hours) per annum of biomethane from locally collected slurry, enough to be able to heat over 3,000 homes each year.
