[CPEO-MEF] Ft. Meade (MD) to buy landfill gas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County to sell methane to Army
Five-mile pipeline to carry landfill gas to expanded Fort Meade


By Phillip McGowan
Baltimore Sun
October 4, 2006

Anne Arundel County will sell methane gas produced at its landfill to 
Fort Meade as a new energy source to serve a massive expansion at the 
Army post, officials announced yesterday.

County Executive Janet S. Owens and Col. Kenneth O. McCreedy, commander 
of the West County installation, signed a memorandum of understanding at 
the Millersville Landfill that opens formal discussions over the next 12 
months on how much methane the facility can produce, how much the county 
would charge for it, and how it would get transported to the sprawling post.

McCreedy estimated that the county's price for methane would be cheaper 
than a utility company's. A contract would not go into effect until 
construction of a pipeline between Fort Meade and the landfill -- which 
are about 5 miles apart -- was completed.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.landfill04oct04,0,1068428.story?coll=bal-local-arundel

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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