
{"id":1405,"date":"2007-12-06T07:42:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T15:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/12\/06\/county-commissioners-consider-methane-capture\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T07:42:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T15:42:02","slug":"county-commissioners-consider-methane-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/12\/06\/county-commissioners-consider-methane-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"County commissioners consider methane capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of County Commissioners on Monday considered a possible gas recovery project at the Orange County Landfill as a way of reducing greenhouse gas.<\/p>\n<p>Several private companies have recently approached the county hoping to develop a plan to trap landfill gas, primarily methane.<\/p>\n<p>UNC is also interested in contracting with the county to recover the gas, but county and university officials have not yet been able to discuss the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proposal.<\/p>\n<p>County staff had recommended that the board request proposals from both private firms and UNC, but university officials refused to bid against private firms.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->UNC officials asked the county to postpone a decision so that university and county officials could discuss a potential plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is an extraordinarily important time we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve entered where finally there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a market for this kind of methane gas,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Commissioner Mike Nelson said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I want to move ahead expeditiously. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always wanted to do this hand-in-hand with the university because it makes the most sense with whatever may eventually happen at Carolina North.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not going to be willing to wait forever. We need to move ahead.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The board will discuss their options at a meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In other county business, the board elected Commissioner Barry Jacobs as board chair and Commissioner Valerie Foushee as vice chair.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobs was first elected to the board in 1998 and previously served as board chair in 2002, 2004 and 2006. He replaces Commissioner Moses Carey.<\/p>\n<p>The board reappointed Donna Baker as clerk, Laura Blackmon as county manager and Geoff Gledhill as county attorney. <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Susan Dickson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of County Commissioners on Monday considered a possible gas recovery project at the Orange County Landfill as a way of reducing greenhouse gas. Several private companies have recently approached the county hoping to develop a plan to trap landfill gas, primarily methane. UNC is also interested in contracting with the county to recover&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}