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Sainte-Sophie Landfill Gas Powers
Paper Mill
In 2005, methane gas from our Next Generation TechnologySM
landfill near Montreal began powering the local Cascades
paper mill. Gas from the landfill is recovered and transported through
a 13-kilometer pipeline to the plant in Saint-Jérôme,
Quebec.
Landfill gas is replacing 75 percent of the mill’s
natural gas usage and should help meet a large part of its energy
requirements for the next 10 years. It is also reducing carbon dioxide
emissions by 540,000 tons a year —
the equivalent of removing about 120,000 cars from the roads.
The paper mill’s 10-year contract to use Waste
Management’s landfill gas as a cost-efficient, alternative
energy source is credited with keeping the plant open after rising
fuel costs threatened the continued operation of the Saint- Jérôme
manufacturing facility.
The headline in the December 2005 issue of a Montreal
newspaper read, "Landfill Saves Jobs at Cascades." The
article goes on to say, "The 315 employees that are staying
can be thankful for the landfill gas now used to power the venerable
plant built in 1892."
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