Media Highlights
July 5, 2010
Powering the Future: AB 32 Has Helped State Get Jump on Creating Green Jobs (LA Business Journal)
June 2, 2010
Mining Project Aims to Capture Methane (Wall Street Journal)
June 1, 2010
Google to Buy Carbon Offsets from Landfill Gas-to-Energy Project (Environmental Leader)
May 14, 2010
Early action offset provisions in US bill draw fire (Point Carbon)
May 10, 2010
Argus Interview – Q&A with Joel Levin (Argus)
March 11, 2010
Early California offset demand may outweigh supply (Point Carbon)
March 1, 2010
US offset supply grows 13% in ’09 (Point Carbon)
February 26, 2010
California approves new offset review guidelines (Point Carbon)
February 18, 2010
CRTs will count as early action: official (Point Carbon)
February 11, 2010
California Registry Adopts Carbon Offset Standards for Destruction of CFCs, HCFCs (BNA)
February 10, 2010
Climate Action Reserve opens for ozone layer projects (Carbon Finance)
October 14, 2009
Do Offsets Really Help Reduce Emissions? (NPR)
October 12, 2009
Seeing the forest for the trees…and all the carbon they suck up (KPCC, Southern California Public Radio)
October 6, 2009
Firma Semarnat acuerdo para proteger a mariposa Monarca (Yahoo! En Espanol)
September 28, 2009
Voluntary carbon market ‘back to square one’ post-recession (ClimateWire)
September 25, 2009
California adopts forestry protocol (Point Carbon)
September 24, 2009
Calif. clean-air program designed to boost forests (AP)
September 23, 2009
Of Forest Management and Carbon Markets (The New York Times)
September 9, 2009
CAR extends forestry protocol (Carbon Finance)
September 3, 2009
Climate Action Reserve expands forest protocol (Point Carbon)
September 2, 2009
American Forests applauds approval of updated Forest Project Protocol (American Forests)
July 17, 2009
Offset confidence builds in US cap-and-trade market (Point Carbon)
July 15, 2009
Climate Action Reserve sets new rules (Ecosystem Marketplace)
July 6, 2009
North American offset registry accepts Mexican credits (Point Carbon)
June 30, 2009
Brain Vitamin: Carbon Offsets | Listen to MP3 (Crosscurrents, KALW Public Radio)
June 18, 2009
Waxman-Markey early action provisions criticized as unclear (Energy Risk)
June 17, 2009
Demand surges for CRTs (Point Carbon)
June 12, 2009
Forest Salvation (Living on Earth, Public Radio)
May 26, 2009
Climate Action Reserve’s Gero discusses role of offsets registries under cap-and-trade (E&E TV)
May 24, 2009
Tree-saving plan has credibility questions (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
May 13, 2009
Regulator expands energy panel to examine carbon trading (Energy Risk)
April 30, 2009
Climate Action Reserve brings on board Mexican official (Point Carbon)
April 15, 2009
Carbon legislation debated at San Diego conference (BizSanDiego)
March 29, 2009
Voluntary Offset Standards: Separating Land Mines from the Diamonds in the Rough (ClimateBiz)
February 2009
Corralling the cowboys (Environmental Finance)
Google will purchase carbon credits generated by a landfill gas-to-energy project in Berkeley County, S.C., through 2013 as part of its commitment to become a carbon neutral company. The Berkeley Green Power Project will create an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 metric tons of carbon offsets, comparable to the emissions from the electricity consumed by approximately 30,000 to 45,000 U.S. households in a year, according to Santee Cooper, South Carolina’s state-owned electric and water utility.
The joint effort by Berkeley County Water & Sanitation (BCWS), Blue Source, Google and Santee Cooper will convert biogas (decomposing waste) into electricity, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by the county landfill.
BCWS owns and operates approximately 60 landfill-gas extraction wells at its county landfill. Starting this fall, the methane captured in these wells will be piped to Santee Cooper’s new Berkeley Green Power Generating Station. The gas will generate 3 megawatts of electricity, which is enough to power 1,500 average-sized homes in the Southeast.
BCWS also is flaring the methane, which also reduces the impact of the methane on the climate.
Matt Dunne, Google’s U.S. community affairs manager told the Charleston City Paper that the flaring off or burning methane significantly reduces the amount of carbon the gas ultimately emits.
Blue Source will quantify and market the emission reductions in the form of voluntary carbon credits. The company plans to register the third-party verified credits created by the project on the Climate Action Reserve’s public registry
The project is said to be the first of its kind to be implemented along South Carolina’s coast. The credits Google purchases will be retired and not allowed to be further sold or traded.
Other companies such as Anheuser-Busch and Waste Management as well as college campuses including the University of New Hampshire are using landfill biogas as an alternative fuel source.
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