Anyone living near an Anaerobic Digester?

Is the digester yours? If not then if it was me, I'd be pulling all the stops and objecting.

Would you like to expand on this truly visionary contribution?

https://www.teagasc.ie/rural-economy/rural-development/diversification/anaerobic-digestion/

Thinking it's a case of I'd prefer the neighbours cow dieing than I getting another cow myself.

The country is full of negativity and anti progression.

Engage with the developer and the council, go to see existing similar set ups incorporate it into your holidays if you need to travel. But believe nothing that's not in writing and on planning documents.

150m seems to be very close to you.

Traffic after the construction stage would be my concern. So entrance and exits would need to be carefully thought out.

I'm in a similar situation to the OP, a proposed site approx 300 meters from my house. In typical Irish fashion, the government is ploughing ahead with these digesters without first establishing guidelines as to where they should be located. Google what it's like to live near the plant in Ballybofey if you want to see how bad it can be. These plants should be far away from towns, and built up residential areas, and certainly not within 150m of a house. Also, they only make financial sense if they are fed with household waste or slurry/sewage, despite what the planning permission documents might say the source will be.

Could you explain how CPO's come into the matter?

The digester should be o/k. If you are concerned find out who is doing the install and commissioning work and try to visit sites they have put similar installs in.

One of the delightful things about anerobic digestion is that you soon get used to the H2S anyway. Just don't go into the cellar without a canary :-)

The only body that can CPO land is the state, no private entity can CPO.

Yes, I would look for a significant distance. Think, pig, poultry farm or sewage treatment plant, as in smell. 200m would be near IWT, 3/400m preferred. Now I wouldn't be a nimby on such matters, just what I'd think would be reasonable. An AD plant reduces the smell of slurry, so locating such a plant in a farmyard should be desirable.

"Only the state can CPO land"

I know, and this is the point. A private developer threatened the farmer (who wasn't aware of this) with a CPO to get this deal over the line. Now FWIW, €X was substantial, but it was still a no until the CPO threat for €Y came.

What would happen if the gas was to explode being 150 metres away would not be much protection. Traffic big problem as they need large volumes of product which has to be hauled in and out. Think the government haven't thought this out and just throwing it out there in every interview as answer to to pollution and derogation .

There is a flare stack installed to burn off any over load so very unlikely to explode. Personally i wouldn't like to have one that close to the house unless it was my own. They take a lot of feed to maintain the maximum output

The government have thought this out. AD plants are a very common feature in all other European and developed countries. Going down the anger route based on "government haven't thought this out" is futile.

Disturbance, noise, smell, traffic are all genuine concerns and cause for objection.

I would also be of the opinion that they will be a competitior to agriculture rather than a help and will move to increase agriculture's emissions while reducing it's output.

Emissions savings will be attributed to the users of the biogas, while the production emissions from feedstock production will be attributed to agriculture.

They probably fit in as a better combination with the tillage based livestock industry across mainland Europe.

I understand them to be well established in other EU member states where they are well run and safe, we are late adopters - as is usual in a lot of developments. It is understandable there may be misapprehensions, if sited sensibly they should be green lighted - we are planning 130 across the State. Proximity to a gas grid connection and supply of inputs (slurry, organic matter etc) will be key. There will always be people who feel discommoded, good planning should seek to minimise this. However, the reality is unfortunately not everyone can be facilitated, the bigger picture needs to win out.