Brockville Climate Action Group

Oil Week / Canadian Press / 26 June 2008

Large landfills in Ontario will have to install methane gas collection systems by 2010 to comply with new regulations.

The province says the regulations will mean a reduction in greenhouse gases equal to taking 200,000 cars off the road each year.

Collecting methane gas is expected to reduce emissions by more than four million tonnes annually.

Under the new rules, landfills larger than 1.5-million cubic metres will have to burn off methane or use it to generate electricity that can then be sold for the province´s power grid.

Methane produced in landfill sites has about 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.

Environment Minister John Gerretsen says the move will help Ontario meet its climate change goals and improve local air quality.

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