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December 2005

Broken seal causes methane leak, fire
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
... City Fire Marshal Chuck Hirsch said Monday's leak was caused by a broken seal on the outside of a digester, which contains a tank that uses bacteria to ...

Little Pink Houses, Part 1: A special report on the impact of ...
Lebanon Democrat - Lebanon,TN,USA
... were the only option for sewage disposal in outlying areas, allowing for roughly one home per acre. Today, however, a decentralized sewer technology known as ...

Threemile Canyon Farms Re-Affirms Commitment to Corporate Social ...
CSRwire.com (press release) - USA
... We are building a methane digester for operation in 2006/2007 to produce 7.5 megawatts of "green power" and to improve air emissions; we are permitted to build ...

Concern grows over sludge dumping
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
Fly ash and sewage sludge can contain traces of heavy metals and ... VFL Technology, a subcontractor for Wilmington's regional wastewater plant operator, collected ...

From the Toilet to Your Tap
Tucson Weekly - Tucson,AZ,USA
... One of the biggest concerns from citizens about drinking treated sewage is the ... the University of Arizona, is also confident that today's technology can create ...

Green waste action reaps award for Somerset
letsrecycle.com - UK
... The Innovation in Composting Technology & Machinery Award went to Earth Tech UK, for its anaerobic digester that serves 28,000 residents in the Western Isles.

November 2005

It'sA Dung Deal
CarbonFree News - Cambridge,UK
... s carbon credits are generated with what is commonly referred to as "cow-power." The innovative project is comprised of an anaerobic digester that process ...

Methane move
Auburn Citizen - Auburn,NY,USA
... A regional methane digester, which has an anticipated groundbreaking date of spring 2006, will use manure from area farms and food processing waste to power ...

February 2005

[Analysis] The current world economic system perpetuates poverty ...
㧜??䘸??㢌??䶌??㵜?? - South Korea
... by the loss of mangrove forests, shrimp farm pollution and untreated sewage from the ... could be deployed to bring in the food, resources and technology needed to ...

New technology to dispose of sewage, mud developed in China
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
Chinese scientists have developed a technology that can effectively turn sewage water and mud, two main headaches of urbanization, into organic fertilizer and ...

Forget the tiger in your tank - Saudis harness seed power
Guardian - UK
... The British company also has a joint venture with Chuan Technology in Chengdu to ... As the seed is inedible, it can be irrigated by treated sewage or other waste ...

Roy Consultants Group - Sludge Treatment with Reed Bed Technology ...
... This technology provides an effective alternative for the disposal of sewage
sludge, as opposed to sending it to a sanitary landfill. ...

January 2005

Cities of Winnipeg and Calgary select Trojan UV for ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... by the Sierra Legal Defence Fund in its 2004 National Sewage Report Card ... enjoyment for the citizens of Calgary." Disinfection by UV technology enables treatment ...

March 2005

GARDEN NOTES
Martha's Vineyard Times - Vineyard Haven,MA,USA
... I also utilize a Green Cone solar digester that takes care of food waste that cannot be given to poultry or that attracts rats. ...

Low BTU Generator from Cummins Power Generation
ECPZone.com - Beltsville,MD,USA
The new GQ series generator sets produce a continuous 1570 kW or 1750 kW running on landfill or digester gas containing very low thermal energy, while ...

Waste to Energy
Pollution Engineering - Troy,MI,USA
... remain. Such excellent results have been directly attributable to the inherent efficiencies of the above-referenced digester process. ...

February 2005

Regional development windfall for Shropshire biodigester
letsrecycle.com - UK
... South Shropshire district council has formed a joint venture with Ludlow-based company Greenfinch, which specialises in anaerobic digester technology, to build ...

Hydrogen fuel cell project at Princeton farm called world's first
Coon Rapids ECM Publishers - Coon Rapids,MN,USA
... They completed a project with the help of the state to set up an anaerobic digester to turn cow manure at the farm into methane gas. ...

Farmer seeks high-tech solution
Auburn Citizen - Auburn,NY,USA
... Patterson, the farm's majority owner, has applied for a permit from the state Department of Environmental Conservation for an anaerobic digester to process the ...

January 2005

Intrepid's Gas Production Plant Achieves Fully Automated Status
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... (ITR) (OTCBB:IESV), a renewable energy company, announces the company's flagship Methane anaerobic digester located at the 4000 head Whitesides Dairy near ...

SDSU Wants to Research Waste Disposal
Marshall County Journal - Britton,SD,USA
The state's largest university wants to use technology, in the form of an anaerobic digester, to research ways of adding value to animal waste. ...

Landfill gas may generate revenue
Oneida Dispatch - Oneida,NY,USA
... said that for bigger landfills, the state requires a generator to turn the landfill gas into energy. But Madison County's landfill is so small, that it's not ...

BIOGAS: an alternate source of power
Times of India - Mumbai,India
... of other gas).The biogas thus produced is captured and used as fuel to operate a generator. ... Biogas power generation plants will generally be a small-scale unit ...

Music to farmers' ears... Governor unveils initiatives to promote ...
Dunn County News - Menomonie,WI,USA
... Five Star Dairy was chosen for the governor's announcement because it is the site of a state-of-the-art manure digester that will soon transform the effluent ...

Cow Power Is 'Moo-sic' To Dairy Farmers' Ears
WGAL Channel.com - Lancaster,PA,USA
... As the manure breaks down it produces methane gas, which powers a generator that produces ... We'll be able to meet a small percentage of Vermont's needs this way .

˜Cow power' gets $1.26 million in grants
Winona Daily News - Winona,MN,USA
... The money will help Al Kreidermacher build a methane digester that he hopes will generate enough electricity to power 80 to 120 homes full-time. ...

State's first methane digester to generate electricity at dairy ...
Victorville Daily Press - Victorville,CA,USA
... EL MIRAGE -- Meadowbrook Dairy officials will throw the switch on Tuesday to activate Southern California's first plug-flow methane digester, a process that ...

Poo Power From New Fuel Cell
Science a Gogo
A new fuel cell is being developed that can turn raw sewage into electrical power says an article in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. ..

Watts from Wastewater: New Device Produces Power While Treating ...
Earth Vision - Arlington,VA,United States
STATE COLLEGE, Penn., Nov. 3, 2004 - A new technology is being developed that can turn raw sewage into raw power. The device, called ...

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Fly Ash has a sordid history. The byproduct of coal burnoff. Left by itself it can become an environmental disaster. Yet burying it will not fix the problem. Now comes means to stabilize it in concrete. For some reason the end result is a much stronger concrete. We must find ways of disposing of our garbage safely before our garbage come to dispose of us.

March 2005

Incineration: dangers that lurk in fly ash
Driffield Today - UK
... building houses. Even more dangerous is the illegal practice of incorporating the even more toxic fly ash in these blocks as well. What

January 2005

Water from abandoned mine threatens homes
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Mallison also said DEP officials will return today to Forward Township, where a landslide of mud and fly ash filled a small, unnamed creek and closed Rostosky ...

Muddy Mess Covers Foward Township Neighborhood
Pittsburgh Channel.com - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... tons of thick black muck. State environmental officials believe the muddy mess is most likely fly ash. More than sixty years ago ...

Headwaters Incorporated Announces Construction Completed on Two ...
Aggregate Research Industries - Morrison,CO,USA
... together. Up to 60% of FlexCrete's total volume is fly ash, replacing portland cement and sand that is used by traditional methods

NLC CREATES WEALTH FROM WASTE
Press Information Bureau (press release) - India
Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited (NLC), a public sector unit of the Ministry of Coal is constructing a model road near the township arch gate using fly ash.

Meet Brisbane billionaire Terry Peabody
Crikey - Australia
... the Craggy Range business. Peabody is someone who made his fortune developing a process for fly-ash production. He was exporting

Ultimate enviros turn brown to green
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA... eviscerating their $1,300 investment in Canadian human-waste-management technology. ... most of which came from inadequate or overloaded sewage-treatment facilities ...

LAFARGE'S PLAN TO CUT POLLUTION RISES FROM THE ASHES
Aggregate Research Industries - Morrison,CO,USA
... The paper ash is not only a similar chemical make-up to existing quarried ... That means the carbon dioxide emissions from the cement works will reduce, helping ...

Pines residents fight for safe water
Munster Times - Munster,IN,USA
... For the past two decades at least, the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. disposed of fly ash -- what's left over after burning coal -- in a nearby landfill. ...

Grant aids Ohio firms coal byproduct project
Waste News - Akron,OH,USA
... based Energy Industries of Ohio has received approval from the state for a $213,000 project grant to develop a commercial use for coal fly ash, a byproduct of .