Columbia seeks alternate energy source: trash

Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | 7:49 p.m. CDT; updated 7:45 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008

COLUMBIA — Wind energy currently supplements Columbia’s non-renewable energy sources, but the future of green energy might arise from a more pungent source. Two “gas-to-energy” projects are under way at the Columbia Sanitary Landfill that will catapult the city far beyond its 2008 alternative energy target.

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