Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ Staff writer
ALBANY The city is in line for a nearly quarter-million grant to underwrite a groundbreaking methane extraction program at its landfill.
The $243,892 grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority would fund a plan to lay pipes under the landfill and pull out the explosive gas, closely monitoring the effects in an effort to design a state-of-the-art method for mining it, according to a city consultant.
Methane is produced by the bacteria as they eat up the trash buried in a landfill.
Normally, the gas is produced over a period of years, and landfill operators install vents to …
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