
{"id":2374,"date":"2008-04-17T07:47:07","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T15:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/04\/17\/commissioners-approve-university-gas-partnership\/"},"modified":"2008-04-17T07:47:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T15:47:07","slug":"commissioners-approve-university-gas-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/04\/17\/commissioners-approve-university-gas-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioners approve university gas partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Susan Dickson<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to move forward with an agreement with UNC for a gas-recovery project at the Orange County Landfill.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In January, the board voted to enter into a 90-day agreement with UNC to explore the feasibility of a landfill gas-recovery project. Commissioners and county officials had said they would like to launch the 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.<\/p>\n<p>At the close of the feasibility study, university representatives said they would like to move forward with the project. County and university officials estimate construction costs of the gas-recovery system at about $5.5 million, and expect the facility to be complete in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We do believe that this will be a win-win for the university and for the county,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Ray DuBose, director of energy services at UNC.<\/p>\n<p>County staff also recommended moving forward with the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This has been a very extensive team effort,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Assistant County Manager Gwen Harvey.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Mike Nelson cautioned that the county should be careful with legal language in the project contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We need to make sure we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re protecting the county\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interest and the taxpayer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interest,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Board Chair Barry Jacobs said he looked forward to the partnership.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We know this has been a sometimes frustrating process, but it sounds like we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still communicating well, still moving forward and moving toward a partnership that will be mutually beneficial, which is what this is all about,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jacobs said.<\/p>\n<p>County and UNC officials will develop a contract for the project and present it to the commissioners on August 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Dickson Staff Writer The Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to move forward with an agreement with UNC for a gas-recovery project at the Orange County Landfill.<\/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-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","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=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}