Business owners promise there will be no odour and that the roads will be repaired. Residents, however, do not believe these promises.

Tatjana Zaslavska lives just a few hundred meters from the existing biogas plant, where two tanks are already in operation. Now there are plans to expand the plant, but she recently learned of this plan not from the developers or the local government, but from the media.

“It’s going to be an absolutely unbearable stench. There’s a risk that ...