By USGasVehicles.com.
The Canadian City of Surrey, British Columbia, is set to open a new biofuel processing facility, the first of its kind in North America. The facility will process the City’s organic waste into a 100 per cent renewable natural gas (RNG).
By Twin Falls Times-News, via MagicValley.com.
BURLEY — Idaho Power Co. has made an offer on the energy produced by Southern Idaho Solid Waste District’s planned landfill gas-to-energy project at Milner Butte Landfill.
The power company has asked the Public Utilities Commission to approve a 20-year contract and purchase price agreement beginning in October 2018. CAFCO Idaho Refuse Management LLC will sell output from the 5-megawatt project at the landfill west of Burley.
By Megan Stacey, Stratford Beacon Herald.
Kitchen scraps could soon be making the City of Stratford some serious dough.
Potential plans to construct a facility that would turn organic waste into renewable natural gas came before city council earlier this week. In a unanimous decision, councillors gave the city the green light to enter into an informal partnership with two agencies to look at building a facility that would produce renewable natural gas.
By Pete Danko, Portland Business Journal.
While the Oregon Senate committee working on climate legislation moved a cap-and-trade bill forward on Wednesday, even supporters say the measure isn't ready for full Senate consideration.
“This is not a bill that in its current form is ready for the floor,” said Sen. Michael Dembrow, chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, who backs creation of a carbon cap and market in Oregon. “But it is ready for ongoing conversation."
By Alicia Hill, LaGrange Daily News.
LaGRANGE – Less than an hour after returning from a walk through at Great Wolf Lodge, LaGrange City Council began its regular work session with discussion on another major project that is in the works for the city.
This time instead of harnessing the power (and funds) of out-of-town visitors, the city hopes to use the power of the gas generated by the LaGrange landfill to bring additional income into the city.
LaGrange has had a program to extract and use landfill gas for several years, but over time the equipment has required more and more repairs. So, when a global leader in energy services contacted the city asking to take over using their own funding, officials took the proposal very seriously.
By Coral Davenport, New York Times.
WASHINGTON — When President Trump chose the Oklahoma attorney general, Scott Pruitt, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, his mission was clear: Carry out Mr. Trump’s campaign vows to radically reduce the size and scope of the agency and take apart President Barack Obama’s ambitious climate change policies.
In his first weeks on the job, Mr. Pruitt drew glowing praise from foes of Mr. Obama’s agenda against global warming, as he moved to roll back its centerpiece, known as the Clean Power Plan, and expressed agreement with those who said the E.P.A. should be eliminated. His actions and statements have galvanized protests from environmentalists and others on the left.
By Sandra Sassow, Bioenergy Insight Magazine.
SEaB Energy has won a contract to supply the State of California Energy Commission with Flexibuster, an innovative waste-to-energy system.
The agreement comes as part of a four year research programme into sustainable energy generation from food waste. The project aims to “demonstrate and evaluate environmentally and economically sustainable food waste biomass to electricity systems”.
Flexibuster is Southampton, UK, based SEaB Energy’s innovative decentralised anaerobic digestion system. Converting food waste to biogas, anaerobic digestion facilities are generally large scale and centralised. Although they enable energy recovery and reduce GHG emissions through processing food waste, they require the expensive and carbon emitting transportation of the food waste from its point of origin to the AD facility. Flexibuster, however, is a de-centralised and onsite solution, removing the need for waste transportation.
By Erica Martinson, ADN.
WASHINGTON — Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is making a push to resurrect her energy bill that stalled out in the final days of Congress in 2016.
So far, the plan mirrors her previous effort: keep it bipartisan, and separate any legislation likely to gum up the works in the Senate.
By Robert Walton, Utility Dive.
