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East Lothian 'greenwash' energy plant to get site visit in row over animal waste

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AuthorMarie Sharp
Published date16 June 2022
Publication titleEdinburghLive (Scotland)
Scottish Ministers are being asked to lift a ban on using animal waste to feed the planned anaerobic digestor near Haddington after East Lothian Councillors accused its developers of 'greenwash'

Greenforty Developments, who have planning permission to build the plant at Bangley Quarry, had claimed they had been approached by local farmers keen to supply "slurry and manure" to the plant in return for the resulting compost in a "fully circular economy".

But when they asked East Lothian Council to remove a ban on using animal waste by-product (APBs) which was a condition of being allowed to build the plant, councillors refused.

And they questioned how local the farmers who want to use the plant are after it was revealed one named supplier of the APBs was based near Penicuik, in Midlothian.

At a council meeting in March Dr Sue Kempson, councillor at the time, told the committee: "We are being subjected to a lot of greenwash."

The proposals received 15 letters of objections with concerns about odours, additional traffic and leakage of polluted waste from the site.

One objector told a meeting of the council's planning committee: "Animal by-products are toxic waste and should never be transported but should be dealt with in situ."

While Haddington and District Community Council said there were "good reasons" for...

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