Tánaiste expects controversial €200m cheese plant to meet climate concerns as sod is turned

Agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and junior minister for agriculture Martin Heydon at the launch in Belview today Image: Eoghan Dalton Agriculture minister Charlie McConalogue, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and junior minister for agriculture Martin Heydon at the launch in Belview today Image: Eoghan Dalton THE TÁNAISTE HAS said a controversial €200 million cheese plant in Co Kilkenny has taken the steps required to lessen its environmental impact while...

Speaking about the plant’s potential environmental impact, Varadkar said: “I think it can be and will be a sustainable development. We need to take action stop climate change, but we also need to produce food to assure food security. “So the challenge really is to marry the two and make sure that we reduce our emissions but also do it in such a way that we protect food production and protect the incomes of farm families in particular,” Vardakar said.

It faced a challenge from An Taisce, the environmental NGO, after it raised concerns about the assessment of the environmental impact of the plant. “Because holding up a project for years has an impact on jobs, has an impact on a company’s performance. It has an impact, for example, on the number of homes that are being built, so we see at the moment a lot of very important industrial complex housing projects [and] climate action projects that are held up in the planning process.”

Agriculture minster Charlie McConalogue, who was also at the sod turning, said there is a danger that projects that are held up in the planning process will have an impact on jobs and cause a company to withdraw its plans.

Will we be getting blocks of cheese again

The number of people on the planet is the main climate threat - and we spend millions on children hospital like if there is not too many children already!!! ;)

Excellent news.

Bull dozens in now, the brie everywhere!

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