Northern Ireland's Livestock Slurry Could Have Potential to Meet Up to 80% of Its Gas Requirements
They’ve been getting a lot of rap in recent times for their emissions output, but slurry and litter from Northern Ireland’s 1.7 million cattle, 2 million sheep, 716,800 pigs, and 24.5 million poultry could help to lower the region’s carbon footprint.
The wide-scale anaerobic digestion and secondary processing of the North’s livestock slurry could have the potential to meet up to 80% of the region’s gas fuel needs, while also significantly lowering its carbon footprint, a new scientific study has found.