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Article: GM Shreveport Operations Becomes Fourth Plant to Use Landfill Gas; Renewable Energy Source Accounts for One-Third of Plant's Needs.
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- PR Newswire
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- April 6, 2004
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SHREVEPORT, La., April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- General Motors today announced that its Shreveport Assembly facility has become the company's fourth location to utilize landfill gas as energy and is helping fulfill the company's goal to increase the use of renewable energy in its energy supply portfolio.
Three other GM facilities -- Toledo, Ohio Powertrain; Orion, Mich. Assembly; and Fort Wayne, Ind. Assembly -- also use landfill gas to power plant boilers, and a fifth project is underway at Oklahoma City Assembly. In addition, GM's Service Parts Operations headquarters in Grand Blanc, Mich. utilizes landfill gas by purchasing eight million kilowatt-hours of ...