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Gordondale Dairy Methane Capture Project

This project began in 2002, and over the course of the 20-year project duration it is expected to avoid 140,489 metric tons of CO₂ equivalent emissions through the capture and destruction of methane.  Manure from up to 875 cows from the Gordondale Dairy near Amherst Junction, WI, is fed into an anaerobic digester, which processes the manure and collects methane gas, which is then burned as an alternative energy source.   The diversion of manure from the previous practice of open-air lagoon treatment followed by the capture and combustion of methane produced by the anaerobic digester will lead to a significant net reduction in the emissions of methane at this facility.  Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, having 21 times the greenhouse warming potential of CO₂.  This project was verified by SES, Inc, and entered the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) through an aggregator of agricultural emissions reduction projects. 

Download the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) registration document submitted by Environmental Carbon Credit Pool, LLC, the CCX aggregator for this project.  

Dowload the verification report submitted by SES, Inc. to the Chicago Climate Exchange for this project.

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