Energy plant operators have been given the go ahead to use animal waste to feed it, despite concerns about the smell from local residents.
The developers of the planned anaerobic digester at Bangley Quarry, north of Haddington, appealed to Scottish Ministers after East Lothian Council refused to lift a ban on animal byproducts (APBs) being used at the site.
Greenforty Developments 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”.
