At last some good news!

Waternotsoda

https://www.offalyindependent.ie/news/roundup/articles/2019/06/28/4176206-over-200-new-jobs-earmarked-for-banagher/

older by the day

Waternotsoda wrote: »

https://www.offalyindependent.ie/news/roundup/articles/2019/06/28/4176206-over-200-new-jobs-earmarked-for-banagher/

Good news but is the planning granted

Waternotsoda

older by the day wrote: »

Good news but is the planning granted

Could the actually refuse especially in the current climate?

older by the day

Waternotsoda wrote: »

Could the actually refuse especially in the current climate?

Of course they can refuse, did you live in Ireland long?

Waternotsoda

older by the day wrote: »

Of course they can refuse, did you live in Ireland long?

OK as a country we have our moments, athenry apple comes to mind. But surely there will be alot of political pressure to get this done.

older by the day

Waternotsoda wrote: »

OK as a country we have our moments, athenry apple comes to mind. But surely there will be alot of political pressure to get this done.

Hopefully it would be great for the Midlands and hopefully a bit of competition for the other beef plants. But they probably won't be welcoming them. I would not be celebrating too much till I see blocks laying.

sonnybill

Wouldn’t that be a great boost. Larry and the boys will prob pay some lunatic to object

Cavanjack

sonnybill wrote: »

Wouldn’t that be a great boost. Larry and the boys will prob pay some lunatic to object

I thought someone did object a few weeks ago on on a number of conditions. One of them being that it was going against our climate change plans, more beef bad for the environment etc.

Lady Haywire

Cavanjack wrote: »

I thought someone did object a few weeks ago on on a number of conditions. One of them being that it was going against our climate change plans, more beef bad for the environment etc.

But how can it be more beef when the cattle numbers are decreasing?
If it means more cattle are killed & processed in Ireland instead of live export, I'm all in favour.

_Brian

For my own reasons I’ve read lots on China and it’s issues including food security and their SOP would not be come into the market and pay top dollar. It would be far more likely they will open a series of their own feed lots to supply this and supply their own labour to run all the facilities too. Supplying their own feed stuffs bought on the open markets and shipped in.

In the very short term this may help but I wouldn’t hold hope it’s any sort of solution.

wrangler

_Brian wrote: »

For my own reasons I’ve read lots on China and it’s issues including food security and their SOP would not be come into the market and pay top dollar. It would be far more likely they will open a series of their own feed lots to supply this and supply their own labour to run all the facilities too. Supplying their own feed stuffs bought on the open markets and shipped in.

In the very short term this may help but I wouldn’t hold hope it’s any sort of solution.

I said the same about the milk, china would just buy the land and the creameries

jaymla627

wrangler wrote: »

I said the same about the milk, china would just buy the land and the creameries

Cheaper to just pay a slightly higher rate then whatever Larry is giving, why would they want to tie up money and resources in cattle/land/sheds etc when they can easily source the product at the cost of production our below from suppliers, same goes for milk production, mega dairies like fonterra have in China are actually a disaster because you have to pay the full economic cost of production, a lot cheaper to source from farmer suppliers who will do it for again the cost of production our below and no headaches our huge amounts of money tied up in farms

148multi

Lady Haywire wrote: »

But how can it be more beef when the cattle numbers are decreasing?
If it means more cattle are killed & processed in Ireland instead of live export, I'm all in favour.

http://www.midlandtribune.ie/home/2019/08/21/news/calls-made-to-veto-meat-processing-plant-plans-5793/

Great bit about wind turbines and circulation of air pollution and bad odours, the bold Gwen is on some vegan websites too.

Lady Haywire

148multi wrote: »

http://www.midlandtribune.ie/home/2019/08/21/news/calls-made-to-veto-meat-processing-plant-plans-5793/

Great bit about wind turbines and circulation of air pollution and bad odours, the bold Gwen is on some vegan websites too.

Ah yes, the long standing Offaly families of Kampff & Wordingham :pac:

The submission, made by Des Kampff and Gwen Wordingham

Perhaps it's just me but I find the comments by those shockingly hypocritical. The cattle are already in the country, providing an option for slaughter which may be nearer than wherever they used to head isn't going to change much about transport or feed production. Bringing up staff commutes as a viable reason to stop the plant is laughable considering how many commute from midlands to Dublin every day.
Not to mention how much cr@p we import from China each year ourselves. Tonnes upon tonnes of generic useless plastic tat from alibaba.com or similar.

"The combined emissions this development would create through the use of transport, livestock and feed production, processing, staff commutes, and air miles involved in the export of beef to China, are vast and unacceptable given current pressure to reduce emissions and create a carbon-neutral economy."

gozunda

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Ah yes, the long standing Offaly families of Kampff & Wordingham :pac:



Perhaps it's just me but I find the comments by those shockingly hypocritical. The cattle are already in the country, providing an option for slaughter which may be nearer than wherever they used to head isn't going to change much about transport or feed production. Bringing up staff commutes as a viable reason to stop the plant is laughable considering how many commute from midlands to Dublin every day.
Not to mention how much cr@p we import from China each year ourselves. Tonnes upon tonnes of generic useless plastic tat from alibaba.com or similar.

"The combined emissions this development would create through the use of transport, livestock and feed production, processing, staff commutes, and air miles involved in the export of beef to China, are vast and unacceptable given current pressure to reduce emissions and create a carbon-neutral economy."

Ah the plant food advocates are at it again. This time screaming they want a carbon neutral economy but with no wind power generation to boot as it is ugly!

If this lot of shisters and their ilk had their way us peasants will be back planting spuds with our bare hands while our German and english visitors smile at us from their comfortable traditional thatched holiday cottages.

Can't wait tbh....