
{"id":1677,"date":"2008-01-17T13:47:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T21:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/01\/17\/commissioners-vote-to-test-landfill-gas-with-unc\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T22:36:07","slug":"commissioners-vote-to-test-landfill-gas-with-unc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/01\/17\/commissioners-vote-to-test-landfill-gas-with-unc\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners vote to test landfill gas with UNC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Susan Dickson<br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday voted unanimously to enter into a 90-day agreement with UNC to explore the feasibility of a landfill gas-recovery project.<br \/>\nCommissioners and county officials have said they would like to launch a possible gas-recovery project at the landfill as a way of reducing greenhouse gases. County staff had recommended in November that the commissioners request proposals from private firms as well as the university, but university officials said they would not bid against private firms.<br \/>\nThe board had agreed in December to consider a proposal by UNC to use county landfill gas to power the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Carolina North Development.<!--more--><br \/>\nCommissioner Mike Nelson expressed concern that the university would choose not to launch the project at the end of the 90-day period, and that the gas should be captured sooner rather than later because emissions will peak.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reading through this [agreement], it really sounds much iffier than it sounded [in December],\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Nelson said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I continue to have concerns about whether, even if they get to the end of the 90 days and decide that they want to proceed, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to take a long time to get their project up and running.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nThe board discussed soliciting bids from private companies during the 90-day period in order to be prepared if the university decided not to launch the project, but opted against it in order to allow the university the option to submit the first proposal.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Because of our respect for the university and our desire to better our working relationship with the university, we have said that we would do this,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d board Chair Barry Jacobs said, adding that county staff should be prepared to begin soliciting bids from private companies on the 91st day.<br \/>\nThe university will return to the board with a possible project proposal in April. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday voted unanimously to enter into a 90-day agreement with UNC to explore the feasibility of a landfill gas-recovery project. Commissioners and county officials have said they would like to launch a possible gas-recovery project at the landfill as a way of reducing greenhouse&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","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=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}