You gotta hand it to the Governator and his band of cronies up and down the Golden State who are saluting environmental stewardship and spearheading green justice programs to research, innovate, and implement ways for residents and communities to save money in a struggling economy.
Last fall, Orange County began constructing a desalinization plant to convert sewage into potable water. Fast forward to this month, and Los Angeles now wants to recycle its own municipal sewage into drinking water.
Fresno and Seal Beach trap methane gas and convert it &mdash at the wastewater plants into compressed natural gas that their municipal fleet uses at a far-reduced cost than gasoline.
Denver and Grand Junction are each intending to follow the California cities to convert sewage gas into CNG, reports yesterday’s Rocky Mountain News.
With all of the talented minds living and working in Newburyport and throughout the Merrimack Valley, with the creative economy that we are always praising each other about possessing, can’t we use our raw talents and imaginations to build something, anything, to put us on the international map of economic innovation?
I’ll start with this not-so-new-at-all idea: Now that the city is investing millions of dollars to overhaul its wastewater treatment plant, can we follow California and Colorado and Washington and countless other communities to similarly trap the methane and convert it into electricity?
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Ari Herzog is an online media strategist and Newburyport City Councilor-Elect.
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