Re: SHEC Labs Turns Garbage into Cold Hard Hydrogen Cash

I´m sorry Alan, did you say Gas project gets OK


Anne Kyle
Leader-Post


Tuesday, November 22, 2005


City hall was given the green light Monday to execute a memorandum of
understanding and to begin negotiating a landfill gas hydrogen
generation project development and operating agreement with the Solar
Hydrogen Energy Corporation Ltd. (SHEC Labs).


In December 2004 the city was approached by SHED Labs of Saskatoon to
join a consortium of private and public partners, who want to build a
$30-million commercial hydrogen production facility, utilizing
renewable solar energy and landfill gas.


The city will supply and sell the raw landfill gas as the raw feedstock

for the hydrogen production process as well as build a landfill gas
collection system at the Fleet Street landfill next year. The estimated

$1.9-million project cost is contained in the city's proposed 2006
capital budget.


In October, the consortium received $2 million in federal Sustainable
Development Technology Canada funding to help offset the costs of
constructing a $6-million demonstration scale project. If the
demonstration project is viable the commercial facility to produce
hydrogen as well as substitute natural gas will go ahead.


"I think when we look at our landfill .... I think frankly we could be
seen as a leader in the country with this project,'' said Mayor Pat
Fiacco at Monday's city council meeting.


"This process, if proven to be commercially viable, will generate a
marketable product from a pollutant, with positive environmental
benefits. There is also the opportunity to generate revenue for the
city through the sale of the landfill gas as a commodity, as well as
through the future value of greenhouse-gas credits,'' he said.


"This is more than just about capturing methane gas from the
landfill,'' Fiacco said.


"There could be tremendous spinoffs,'' he added, explaining this
project has the potential of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions as well
as developing a value-added product from a pollutant.


"Use of landfill gas in a process that converts the methane to hydrogen

or natural gas has the added benefit of replacing non-renewable fossil
fuels and further reducing greenhouse-gas emissions,'' Fiacco said,
reading from a report tabled at the council meeting.


"Additionally, the solar hydrogen production process utilizes energy
captured from the sun to make the conversion from methane to hydrogen,
greatly reducing the requirements for energy from non-renewable fossil
fuels.


"The project will convert a potent greenhouse gas, into value added
hydrogen, with no net increase in air pollution or greenhouse gases.''


At full capacity, the landfill gas collection system will collect and
destroy about 56,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year.

Not Big Al´s project, not K-Dog, or Don Dons, but SHEC´s ?
Hmm... just as I thought it would be.

Let us revel in our own glory and laugh heartily at those who had
laughed emptily at us.

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