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Article: GM modifies La. plant to burn landfill gas.(News)(General Motors Corp)
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- Waste News
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- April 26, 2004
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Byline: Jim Johnson
General Motors Corp., the largest non-utility user of landfill gas in the country, is tapping into the trash gas at a fourth location.
The company's Shreveport Assembly plant makes Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon pickup trucks. Other GM sites that use landfill gas are in Fort Wayne, Ind.; Orion, Mich.; and Toledo, Ohio.
Another project at a GM site in Oklahoma City is under construction.
"GM is helping reduce coal consumption at its plants and emissions by capturing methane and using it as a source of energy,'' said Joseph C. Bibeau, group director of energy and utility services for the company.
GM is ...