This will be our last update prior to the application submission which we have been told is November 2025. 

Please take the time to read and thank you to everyone who has helped our petition and followed us on Facebook:
Little Ones Microsanctuary
#littleonesbiogasrisk #sanctuarysurvival

If interested, please share our petition one last time 🥰

Update:
Nephin Renewable Gas held house meetings recently, and we invited them to meet our sanctuary residents and see the work of our grassroots, self-funded Microsanctuary. 

The company has proposed to use a new entry from another road, closing off the entrance beyond our sanctuary. The construction of a new road, timeline of 8+ months, will bring additional welfare issues to our sanctuary residents. 
With past career experience, BEng in Civil Engineering, incl Geotech and Oil & Gas experience, and having had experience on a major road construction, this additional information and possible future construction has placed further stress on us as caregivers. 
As we are surrounded by farms that may have agreed to the biogas, it is unknown if additional traffic will pass our boundary. However, where we are sited, our sanctuary is exposed to all elements.

Our sanctuary does not support the very industry that will fuel biogas production, animal agriculture. We have documented through articles, papers and posts the pollution, and the fire & explosion risks that begins at animal farm level, and can follow through to biogas.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/194MDoUybx/

We will be submitting our objection letter, veterinary letter and petition to Cork County Council, and will place our objection on our social media for easy to read access.

Please follow, if interested, for further updates, as we have been told it could take up to 2 years for a final answer once planning application is submitted - this further harm takes from our work and the moments with the little ones that can be too short, as we not only give sanctuary to the healthy but the ill and disabled. As caregivers, the effect on our well-being has suffered.

Our work is for the animals - abandoned, dumped, adopted, rescued and those who were rehomed to us. Our daily life is caring for the healthy, chronically and terminally ill and disabled, and at time, including yesterday, saying goodbye to little ones. 

It is also for the animals within animal agriculture, and we will continue to be there for those who need a peaceful, safe and loving home: a sanctuary! 
Our sanctuary residents are not "stock" nor pets, and we have given our all to provide medical care and more so they can live a life where they will never see the inside of a slaughterhouse or live export ship, or be without a home.

Our sanctuary has already suffered financial loss, the welfare of residents affected, and us, as caregivers - having had an effect on our sanctuary day-to-day work, and all before the planning application. 
Please see our May Update - and thank you for those who stand with animal sanctuaries: 
first and foremost, for the animals 🐾

Dionne & Robbie
Little Ones Microsanctuary.

“The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.”
— Caroline Earle White