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Good news for farmers

2nd February 2009

Many people are already turning down their central heating a notch and using their car a bit less to reduce their bills and doing their bit for climate change at the same time.

Now farmers are being encouraged to invest in anaerobic digestion of animal slurries to generate heat, energy, biogas and cheaper fertilisers as a by product, while reducing 75 per cent of methane emissions. Added benefits will be greater energy security, and a use for on-farm by-products.

This is win win technology that the government is failing to exploit. It should guarantee access to feed the main gas grid and provide an option to the thousands of producers facing otherwise unavoidable investment in storage as a result of the absurd EU nitrates directive.