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Dawn Gaetke wanted to grow and sell mushrooms from her suburban yard for some extra income.
After a year of working with Inver Grove Heights officials to change local rules, Gaetke s wish was granted this month and she already has a modest crop of mushrooms sprouting from logs on her property. Having suburban market gardens is going to make our food system more resilient, she said. What I m doing is part of the local food movement.
Across the metro, suburban communities are allowing and in some cases encouraging residents to grow produce in community spaces or their own yards. The trend appears poised to grow to more communities, proponents and city officials said.
While older generations, including the baby boomers, established and embraced a narrow code of suburban conduct, younger homeowners buying into these communities are starting to ask: What s the point?
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(OPAL Fuels) OPAL Fuels LLC, previously known as Fortistar RNG and TruStar Energy, and NextEra Energy Marketing, LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC will build the first renewable natural gas production facility in Minnesota. The project will be located at a landfill owned by Republic Services, Inc. and interconnect with a pipeline owned by Xcel Energy, Inc.
For many years, OPAL has collected and processed gas to generate electricity at the 255-acre Pine Bend Landfill in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. NextEra Energy Marketing will now work with OPAL to replace the existing power generation facility with a new production plant that will capture 3,200 standard cubic feet per minute of landfill gas and produce over 6 million gas gallon equivalents (GGE) of biomethane per year.
April 28, 2021News
Two companies are partnering to build a facility to produce natural gas from a landfill and supply a pipeline in Minnesota.
OPAL Fuels LLC, a Fortistar portfolio company, and NextEra Energy Marketing LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, announced April 28 plans to build the first landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility in Minnesota. The project will be located at a landfill owned by Republic Services Inc., a leader in the U.S. environmental services industry, and interconnect with a pipeline owned by Xcel Energy Inc., the leading electric and gas utility in the region.
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