The Lansing State Journal reports that at 12 sites around Ingham country, Granger Energy drills deep into heaps of decaying garbage to get landfill gas - a gas it collects, processes and uses to create electricity or sells to large commercial clients. At the end of 2004, there were 378 landfill gas recovery projects in the United States, up from 86 in 1990. Granger runs six landfill gas recovery sites in Michigan and 6 more elsewhere while Waste Management Inc. (US's largest solid waste company) 57 has landfill gas-to-energy projects nationwide and 6 in Michigan.
Granger web site

Read More (external link) »