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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2015
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A3 TESLA INSPIRED 19-year-old Etienne Dreyer graduates from the UFV Bachelor of Science program with honours, holding a more than perfect GPA at 4.10.
A6 POT FANS SCORE Cannabis crusaders win a major victory after they argue vehemently for the use of the green product in an edible form such as a brownie.
A9 R2S FOR HOPE Ride 2 Survive plans to stop in Hope during its daylong journey that spans 400 kilometers to raise funds for cancer research.
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Sit to Stand Lift Presentation offers seniors support The Fraser Hope Lodge demonstrated a Sit to Stand Lift Presentation by Valley Alert Lifeline Society (VALS) to guests on Wednesday, June 10th. Sharon Green (left) of Hope and a VALS volunteer since 1999, assisted Sylta Hellner, the clinical services manager of Fraser Hope Lodge.
Cache Creek dump captures 85 per cent of landfill gas Jeff Nagel Black Press
The Cache Creek landfill has begun generating electricity from the methane emitted by the millions of tonnes of Metro Vancouver garbage dumped there over the past 26 years. Three reciprocating engines installed by operator Wastech Services now turn captured landfill gas into 4.8 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 2,500 homes. The province had made beneficial use of landfill gas a future condition
change, said Janet of the landfill's new Tecklenborg, environoperating permit and mental services direcit was also under a tor for Wastech, which province-wide reis an arm of Belkorp quirement to capture Environmental. at least 75 per cent The landfill startof the gas emitted by ed capturing gas in 2016. Cache Creek's 1996 but it had been system hit that target years ahead of schedflared off prior to the FILE PHOTO/BLACK PRESS ule and is now capcompletion of the turing 85 per cent of the landfill gas $12-million power generation projthat would otherwise escape into the ect. The electricity produced is sold atmosphere and contribute to climate to BC Hydro. Methane from garbage
is an intense greenhouse gas and last year the landfill captured and flared 22.5 tonnes per day of carbon dioxide equivalent. The Vancouver Landfill in Delta also captures large amounts of methane, some of which is used to heat nearby greenhouses. The exhaust from burning methane there is currently released but Village Farms is studying the potential to process and pump the resulting carbon dioxide back into its greenhouses to boost crop yields and reduce emissions that contribute to smog.
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