Waste matters – Lethbridge Campus Media [Video]

A European technology has made its way to southern Alberta. For the last two decades biogas has been generating power throughout Europe. Lethbridge became home to a bigoas facility two years ago, but the facility is still not operating at its full potential. Sarah Redekop has more.

The hum of these engines carry waste that will soon become the hum of electricity.

This is Lethbridge BioGas and it’s in the business of renewable energy.Lethbridge Biogas picks up manure and organic material from local agricultural operations and grocery stores.

The products are disposed into anaerobic digesters that process the waste and capture methane gas.

The gas powers a large engine, which produces electricity that is distributed to the power grid.

Operations Director, Stefan Michalski, says southern Alberta has the waste biogas needs to run the facility.

“From the material that we want to collect and process, this was a natural …