All,
Over the last few years the rhetoric from 'The Man' or at least Moy Park and some of our politicians is that there are no alternatives to large scale incineration, and often no alternatives to locating the plant in a designated beauty spot beside Lough Neagh with all its scientific designations.
We've heard over again that there are "No Alternatives" and "No Plan B."
For any readers not familiar with Northern Ireland, we were masters of simple rhetoric through the troubles, "Ulster says No!," "No Surrender!," etc. My fear is that some people in the industry have become infected and blinkered in the dark days and don't seem to be able to comprehend the approach to big challenges taken by successful public companies the world over; namely putting in some thought up front and developing a few alternatives.
I'm not normally a fan of MBAs, but this could be one situation where an injection of new blood would really freshen up the thinking.... perhaps we should get a few management trainees over from Brazil to help??
The "What! There are alternatives!??" theme in this blog will keep you up to date with the alternative methods of chicken litter disposal being proposed for NI, or currently being used across Europe and the US.
To begin with there was a great article in the Guardian yesterday describing a digester based biogas CHP solution fed by poultry litter and delivering town heating to 350 homes in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/oct/28/chicken-poo-lights-town
Yes! There are alternatives!
Best,
Danny
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