Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 678: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is familiar with the Stein gasification process; and his views on whether he believes whether it might be a viable means of creating energy from waste. [14681/08]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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The Stein gasification process is one technology option available to developers in the waste to energy sector.

The Stein gasification process would appear to be capable of harnessing energy from waste on a large scale. However any such programme must be compliant with the national waste management requirements including compliance with the waste management hierarchy in the first instance. Depending on the precise proposal a plant harnessing waste may require a license from the EPA and compliance with the requirements of the Waste Incineration Directive (2000/76/EC), which deals also with exhaust gas clean-up requirements.

The use of any particular waste-to-energy process is a commercial decision for individual companies in the first instance.