A groundbreaking was held this morning for a new system that captures methane gas from the North Baton Rouge Landfill. The city-parish will deliver the landfill gas to ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge Polyolefins and Novolyte Technologies Chemical plants, where it will be used as a substitute for natural gas as a boiler fuel. East Baton Rouge Parish expects to receive up to $33 million, or about $1.65 million per year, over the 20-year life of the project. The project will also reduce enough greenhouse gas emissions in the Baton Rouge area to equal the removal of 59,000 cars from the road or the planting of 73,000 new acres of pine forests. The system is expected to be fully operational later this year.
Groundbreaking heralds landfill gas project
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