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Green Energy Center© Gets Green Light For Bond Inducement
Ohio Air Quality Board Unanimously Approves Bond Measure
NEWPORT BEACH, CA, June 19, 2006 — Today, FirmGreen, Inc. (FGI) of Newport Beach, California announced that it received unanimous approval from the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority (OAQDA) for a bond inducement on June 13, 2006. With this approval, FGI expects to complete financing for the construction of its Green Energy Center© (GEC) near Grove City, Ohio within thirty days.
FGI will use its patented CO2 Wash® technology to clean and process the landfill gas (LFG) for electrical generation, compressed natural gas (CNG), and clean renewable methanol. The Ohio EPA recently approved installation of FirmGreen’s LFG processing facilities, which are permitted to produce up to 20 million gallons of methanol annually for use in alternative fuel production and fuel cell technology.
“We’re especially pleased to receive the unanimous vote from the Ohio Air Quality board.” said Steve Wilburn, President and CEO of FGI. “We feel it reflects their confidence in our ability to protect the environment while producing clean burning renewable fuels from local biogas resources.”
Initially the GEC will produce CNG to fuel the fleet of the adjacent landfill operator, and electricity for the landfill’s administrative and maintenance buildings, with additional CNG production becoming available to power school and transit buses. Mitsubishi Gas Chemical America, Inc. (MGCA) has contracted to purchase up to 5 million gallons annually of the methanol production. FGI also expects to sell methanol from its GEC to area Biodiesel production facilities.
FGI plans to begin construction October 2006; CNG is expected to be in
production from the landfill facility by mid 2008.
