This is why you need good planning : Non-starting biogas plant raises stink with neighbours

Pig manure is intended to power a Peace River biogas facility. 
Photograph by: Enrique Castro-Mendivil, Reuters file photo

EDMONTON - A pig farm biogas facility the province spent more than $900,000 on in 2007 still isn't working, and farmers near Peace River are living with the stench as the manure is spread on land instead.

Denis Sauvageau farms near the Smoky Pork confined-feeding operation, where he estimates as many as 50,000 pigs are kept at one time. "I open the house door and I get hit like a brick wall," he said about the odour.
The smell has been an issue since 1998 and some of his neighbours near the Girouxville pork operation have given up growing a garden in the summer because they can't stand to work in their yards, he said.

The biogas facility built about six years ago was supposed to turn the manure into fuel and wipe out the odour issue. But it didn't work. The provincial government stepped in with an offer of more than $900,000 in 2007 to improve the existing biogas facility to generate power and heat as well as improve water remediation capacity at the site.

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