Pennsylvania Approves Conestoga Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project

Date: August 13, 2008

Source: News Room

The Pennsylvania DEP has approved plans by the Conestoga Landfill in Berks County to construct a $10 million treatment plant and 9-mile pipeline in order to ship its gas to Lancaster County where it will help power local industry. Project developer Granger Energy had to acquire a 27-acre site adjacent to the landfill to construct the large treatment plant which dries and filters the gas to make it suitable for export. The pipeline will eventually connect with another that takes gas from the nearby Lanchester Landfill in Narvon, PA. Taken together, the Conestoga and Lanchester landfill gas projects are expected to produce the energy equivalent of 200,000 barrels of oil annually, while eliminating air emissions equal to the output of 16,000 vehicles, according to reports.

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