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View of Neil Burkhard standing at one of the 160 pipes that go down into the mountain of trash to harvest methane at Edmonton's Cloverbar Landfill site
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Big picture - view of the 4.8 megawatt Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant at the Edmonton waste management facility
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The Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant consists of three 1.6 megawatt generators
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Storage of electronics and metals at the Edmonton waste management facility
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A sticker inside an Edmonton City truck remindeds staff to avoid idling
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Mike Lefebvre Capital Power's plant operator at the Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant
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Mike Lefebvre Capital Power's plant operator at the Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant
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Landfill gas is cleaned up at the Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant before it is combusted in three large V20 engines to produce electricity
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Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant
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Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant
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Mike Lefebvre Capital Power's plant operator at the Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant
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Mike Lefebvre Capital Power's plant operator at the Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant - the three 1.6 megawatt generators are visible behind the flare stack
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The flare stack at the Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant - it is used to flare gas upon shutdowns or times of oversupply
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Mike Lefebvre Capital Power's plant operator at the Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant
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Mike Lefebvre Capital Power's Cloverbar Landfill Gas Plant operator one of the three V20 engine rooms – each one powers a generator that generates 1.6 megawatts of electricity
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The 4.8 megawatt Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant sends its power straight out to the grid
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The Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant burns methane to produce 4.6 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 4,600 homes
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The Clovebar Landfill Gas Power Plant cleans up the landfill gas and produces 4.6 megawatts of electricity with more than 96 per cent reliabiliity
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Trash tourism - Edmonton has it thanks to the world class waste management facility located in Edmonton's east end
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The Cloverbar Landfill Gas Power Plant used 3 coverted diesel enginees to run three 1.6 megawatt electricity generators
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The Biofuels project under construction at the Edmonton Waste Managemnt centre – most of the non-recycled or uncompostable will be turned into methanol in this plant by 2015 getting Edmonton's waste diversion rate to 90 per cent