New Era for Landfill Gas Use Dawns

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LONDON, October 20 /PRNewswire/ —
Gasrec Commercial Trial With Veolia and Iveco Enters Next Phase
In August, Gasrec, the UK’s first commercial producer of liquid biomethane [...]

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Hearing on Meath Landfill Ireland Deferred

College Proteins has applied under the Irish Strategic Infrastructure Act (SIA) to the board for permission for the development on its existing site in Nobber.
On Thursday, the ninth day of the hearing, landowner David Horgan told Oisín Collins for North East Against Incineration that the field was his and he had not been asked to [...]

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SITA Energy-from-Waste Plans for Cornwall Energy Recovery Plant

In Cornwall, SITA as the County Council’s PPP Waste Contractor, is now 12 months into their circa. 20 year contract and they are progressing the planning stages to develop an energy recovery centre near St Dennis, in the centre of the county
The waste centre will be called the Cornwall Energy Recovery Plant (CERC) and will [...]

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In the US Veolia Wins National Landfill Methane EPA Award

Veolia Environmental Services and Beacon Landfill Gas Holdings Wins National EPA Award
BusinessWire, Comtex
KERSEY, Pa., Jan 09, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Veolia Environmental Services (Veolia ES) is pleased to announce that the high Btu landfill gas project installed on its Greentree Landfill was chosen as the Environmental Protection Agency’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program (EPA LMOP) “2007 [...]

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Slough Biomass Plant in £49m Bought by Energy Giant

Energy giant buys deal. 02-01-2008
Scottish and Southern Energy has acquired Slough Heat and Power, which runs one of the UK’s largest biomass plants using wastes to generate energy, in a £49.25 million deal.
Slough Heat and Power, which operates a combined heat and power plant, has been acquired by Scottish and Southern Energy.
The power giant announced today [...]

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New Video Explains the AD Process

At present more than 65% of all Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generated in England is disposed of in landfills.
The introduction of the EC landfill directive means that the European Commission has set targets to reduce the levels of biodegradable materials going to landfill.
The most significant challenge facing the management of Municipal Solid Waste is how [...]

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Renewable Energy ‘07 - Last Chance to Book NCE Conference London

We are well into the conference season and frankly we have never seen so many renewable energy events and conferences as this season. It seems that all the major event players will soon have their own offering.
This is a very last minute opportunity for booking attendance for the NCE (New Civil Engineer magazine/EMap) 1 day [...]

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