MMSD, Veolia: Five area communities and state officials to sign historic agreement to build 19-mile pipeline to power Jones Island with landfill gas from Muskego

Leaders and project workers will sign large section of pipeline commemorating cooperation and sustainability of project

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Chair of White House Council on Environmental Quality to make additional important environmental announcement for area

* Watch officials from Muskego, Franklin, Oak Creek, Greendale and Milwaukee, MMSD and Veolia sign a section of pipeline, plus an agreement acknowledging this alternative energy project is underway.

* Hear from MMSD commissioners how the pipeline will save 1 million ratepayers in 28 metro Milwaukee communities tens of millions of dollars in future reduced energy costs.

* Learn about the growing importance of Wisconsin’s methane to energy landfill projects from the DNR and how the MMSD/Veolia project will decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 500,000 tons a year. WI’s DOT Secretary will discuss key intergovernmental cooperation making the effort a success.

* Talk to Veolia Environmental Services’ President and CEO on how methane gas from Veolia’s Emerald Park landfill in Muskego will fuel MMSD’s Jones Island Water Reclamation Facility for 20 years.

* See video of landfill’s blue flame that will no longer be needed to burn off methane gas once pipeline begins operation in 2013.

WHAT: Methane Gas to Energy Project – Pipeline & Agreement Signing and White House CEQ announcement

WHEN: Monday, September 27, 12 noon

WHERE: 260 W. Seeboth Street, Milwaukee – Parking lot of MMSD

Contact:

Brian Knox, Zeppos & Associates – (414) 276-6237 or (414) 870-6581