Tribes and Dairy Farmers Working Together
For A Better Environment
The Sno/Sky Agricultural Alliance, The Tulalip Energy
Corporation and Northwest Chinook Recovery are working together to develop
a Bio-Gas facility. The Tulalip
Tribes contracted with the Clark Group, LLC to help the partners to develop
a feasibility study and business plan for this project. The facility should help to make Dairies
more economically viable and help protect water quality for fish.
The Bio-Gas facility is basically a sewage treatment
system for cow manure, with a methane collector and power generator
attached. Cow manure releases
methane gas, which can be burned to create electricity or compressed and
sold as liquefied natural gas.
Methane is a relatively clean burning fuel and its emissions are
less damaging to the ozone layer than the methane gas itself.
The treated bio-solids collected during the process are
free of harmful bacteria and can be used for creating high quality compost
or fertilizer for the local market.
The liquid effluent can be re-used for flushing the manure out of
barns and for irrigating the farms fields.
