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May 2, 2008 – Vol.13 No.6 Waste Management and Linde to Develop the World’s Largest Landfill Gas to LNG Facility. The liquified natural gas, derived from waste, from the facility is intended to fuel a fleet of garbage and recycling trucks operating in California. When the $15.5 million Waste Management-Linde facility begins operation in 2009 it is expected to produce up to 13,000 gallons per day of LNG. The project, to be located at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, California, will receive grant assistance from the California Integrated Waste Management Board, the California Air Resources Board, and the South Coast Air Quality Management District. Pat Murphy, president of Linde North America, said, “Linde and Waste Management are joining together to clean up our environment by capturing and reusing landfill gas for vehicle fueling, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 30,000 tons per year. Linde is using its expertise in designing and developing LNG plants around the world to create a clean and sustainable energy solution for the residents of California.” Linda Adams, secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, calls the project a “very significant step towards helping meet Governor Schwarzenegger’s new, low-carbon fuel standard. The LNG produced from the Altamont landfill gas will be a virtually zero-carbon transportation fuel. This is a key milestone in helping us develop the facilities needed to produce more than 200 million gallons of clean transportation fuel each year from the garbage in California’s landfills.”
For Waste Management the project is part of the company’s environmental sustainability initiative. The company plans to double its waste-based energy production from the equivalent energy demand of 1 million to 2 million homes each year by 2020. it will also direct capital spending of up to $500 million per annum over a 10-year period to increase the fuel efficiency of its fleet by 15 percent and reduce fleet emissions by 15 percent by 2020. Based in Houston, Texas, Waste Management is a provider of comprehensive waste management services in North America. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides collection, transfer, recycling and resource recovery, and disposal services. It is also a developer, operator and owner of waste-to-energy and landfill gas-to-energy facilities in the United States. The Linde Group is a gases and engineering company with more than 50,000 employees working in around 100 countries worldwide. Linde is developing alternative technologies using hydrogen, biogas, LNG and other sustainable replacements for gasoline, diesel and other oil products. (5/1/08)
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