Ada County officials will cut the ceremonial ribbon Tuesday, May 13 on a new natural gas treatment plant at the Ada County Landfill, but a small amount of the captured and cleaned Landfill Natural Gas (LNG) from the facility is already entering the commercial pipeline.
Texas-Based Bio Gas is the company behind the project, we first reported on it in January. A company spokesman says the amount of natural gas being produced from landfill emissions will grow over the next several weeks. Ultimately, the county expects to bring in about $1 million a year in royalties – revenue that will help keep landfill fees low.
BioGas makes money, too, and the project means fewer climate-warming methane emissions. The Ada County Landfill, as required by the Environmental Protection Agency, has been capturing methane emissions for years. Some powers electricity generators, most is flared off; carbon dioxide is a far-less damaging gas compared to methane…