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Press Release
Environmental Protection Dept signs agreement on landfill gas use
The Environmental Protection Department (EPD) today (March 16) signed a supplemental agreement on the treatment and delivery of the landfill gas generated from the North East New Territories Landfill in Ta Kwu Ling for off-site use.
Under the supplemental agreement, the contractor for the landfill, Far East Landfill Technologies Limited, will treat the landfill gas and convey the treated gas to the production plant of Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (HKCG) in Tai Po as an alternative heating fuel for the production of towngas.
A spokesman for the department said: "After being filled with waste for years since 1995, the North East New Territories Landfill now generates landfill gas of a level that is economically viable for off-site utilisation."
The project is one of the greatest off-site landfill gas utilisation projects in the world.
At present, some of the landfill gas is used to generate electricity for on-site facilities and some is used as a direct heating fuel in the landfill's leachate treatment plant.
Surplus raw landfill gas is flared off for safety and environmental reasons.
"Under the agreement, the surplus landfill gas will be delivered to the HKCG plant in Tai Po to partially replace naphtha as a heating fuel.
"This off-site utilisation of landfill gas as an energy replacement will help conserve fossil fuel and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere," the spokesman noted.
The off-site delivery of treated landfill gas is expected to start in early 2006 for an estimated period of 25 years.
The project comprises the construction and operation of a gas-treatment plant at the North East New Territories Landfill to treat raw landfill gas to specific standards before being conveyed to the HKCG plant through a 19-kilometre-long pipeline.
Far East Landfill Technologies will invest $80 million in the gas treatment plant and HKCG will invest $150 million in the gas pipeline.
Ends/Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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