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| January Issue Post Date 1/18/06 | www.mcelroy.com | |
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Note From The Editor I was standing on a pipeline construction site on a landfill in Boise, Idaho trying to gather an interview so that I could drive to a wastewater treatment plant the next day to do the same thing followed by an interview at a cattle feed lot. I stood open When I was finally able to clear enough water from my eyes to shoot my camera, the scene was quite stunning. Snow covered sage under blue skies surrounded the jobsite. But the shots were nice mainly because a picture tells a thousand words but has practically no smell. All three above mentioned pipeline jobs are employing polyethylene pipe to gather methane gas to be converted to energy. If water is the gold of the 21 st Century, methane is at least the Copper of the 21 st Century. The landfill is one of 335 methane conversion plants operational in the U.S. with 500 more listed as a candidate for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP). Methane is a greenhouse gas that causes global warming and the landfill in Boise is using a grid pipeline system of perforated polyethylene pipe to gather the gas. The gas will completely power 24,000 homes in the city of Boise . The pipeline grid is put in place as the landfill is created. With every twenty feet of refuge, a new pipeline grid is fused together and laid out and another twenty feet of refuge piled on top. Polyethylene pipe is preferred because it is resistant to the chemicals found in landfills and is expected to last for more than the 100 or so years that the landfill will produce methane gas. For further research on this topic, you’ll have to do a search on the internet or make your own field trip to a landfill near you. If you do, rest assured you won’t find me standing there.
Drew L. Wilson; Editor Call for HDPE Projects Drew L. Wilson; Editor
In July, the Energy Information Administration released a report on the outlook for near-term U.S. gas transmission pipeline construction. The 13-page report contains a discussion on the level of growth within the U.S. pipeline sector and an analysis of development activities and projects proposed for completion over the next several years. Read Article Infrastructure Oil of the 21 st Century Southwest summers will be hotter by late 21st century, study says No deal in multi state talks on Colorado River water supply Water officials say Las Vegas could outgrow Colorado River by 2007
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mouthed, trying not to breathe through my nose, but the taste was so bad it caused me to have an epiphany – this job stinks. Not figuratively of course, but literally. And let me tell you brother, when a backhoe breaks into a landfill that has been decaying twenty years, an appalling, invisible rottenness leaps up and engulfs you that would make a two week dead carp smell like a peach blossom.
EPA launched LMOP to encourage productive use of this resource as part of the United States ' commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
