Projects to convert landfill waste into energy will utilize
existing infrastructure to heat homes, power businesses and fuel
vehicle fleets while reducing carbon emissions
CALGARY, AB, April 28, 2021 /CNW/ - Today, Enbridge Inc.
(Enbridge) (TSX: ENB) (NYSE: ENB), Walker Industries and Comcor
Environmental, announced a partnership to jointly develop renewable
natural gas (RNG) projects across Canada.
The partnership aims to transform landfill waste into
carbon-neutral energy, which will be injected into local natural
gas distribution networks across Canada, reducing the overall carbon emission
of the gas supply used to heat homes, power businesses and fuel
vehicle fleets.
The partnership brings together industry leaders with a proven
track record in energy transportation and landfill gas
utilization to deliver a cost-effective solution to help
advance Canada's energy transition
to a low-carbon future.
"Renewable natural gas is a low-carbon fuel that will help us
get to net-zero," said Seamus
O'Regan, Canada's Minister
of Natural Resources. "Companies like Enbridge are working to lower
emissions, create jobs, and develop new opportunities to transform
landfill waste into low-emitting energy."
The industry estimates over 33 Petajoules (PJ) of landfill
derived RNG can be generated in Canada, potentially supplying energy to
approximately 400,000 homes for a year. This joint venture
intends to unlock this RNG potential and offer commercially viable
solutions to landfills ready for development. The Niagara RNG
facility in Ontario, which is
currently under development for in service in 2022, is the
partnership's first landfill RNG project, and several additional
projects are in the works.
Canada has over 10,000 landfill
sites, generating approximately 30 Megatonnes (Mt) of carbon
dioxide equivalent (CO2e) annually, accounting for 20 percent of
national methane emissions. Only one third of those landfill
emissions are captured and utilized and the rest are emitted
directly to the atmosphere. Repurposing this under-utilized
resource has the potential to divert 20 Mt of CO2e, which is
comparable to diverting 850 million trash bags of organic material
from landfills per year.
"RNG presents a tremendous opportunity to provide affordable,
reliable, and low-carbon fuel for Canada's increasing energy needs, leveraging
our existing energy system and stimulating economic growth," said
Cynthia Hansen, Executive Vice
President and President, Gas Distribution and Storage, Enbridge.
"For example, the Niagara RNG facility project will generate enough
clean energy to heat 8,750 homes and reduce GHG emissions by 48,000
tonnes per year. This is just one example of how Enbridge is
connecting consumers to renewables sources of energy. Together
we're leading the way to a green energy future."
"We are excited to be partnering with leading companies like
Comcor Environmental and Enbridge in innovative technologies to
provide resource recovery solutions," said Geordie Walker, CEO of
Walker Industries. "By converting waste into a clean energy
resource, we are able to build a sustainable future. This
partnership provides significant benefits to our environment while
stimulating the local economy with jobs."
"The production of RNG from landfill gas and its use in existing
energy infrastructure is a pathway towards greenhouse gas
reductions and a greener energy future in Canada," said Walter
Graziani, President of Comcor Environmental. "Comcor
Environmental is proud to partner with Walker Industries and
Enbridge to make this first of its kind partnership a reality. We
look forward to helping Canada
meets its climate change goals through RNG project development
across the country."
About Enbridge Inc.
Enbridge Inc. is a leading North
American energy infrastructure company. We safely and reliably
deliver the energy people need and want to fuel quality of life.
Our core businesses include Liquids Pipelines, which transports
approximately 25 percent of the crude oil produced in North
America; Gas Transmission and Midstream, which transports
approximately 20 percent of the natural gas consumed in the U.S.;
Gas Distribution and Storage, which serves approximately 3.8
million retail customers in Ontario and Quebec; and
Renewable Power Generation, which generates approximately 1,750 MW
of net renewable power in North America and Europe.
The Company's common shares trade on
the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under
the symbol ENB. For more information,
visit www.enbridge.com.
About Walker Industries
Walker Industries is a fifth
generation, family-owned Canadian company that has operated from
its base in the Niagara Region for more than 130 years. With
facilities across Canada and
the United States the company
employs more than 1100 people in environmental waste management and
recovery, renewable energy, paving and construction, aggregates,
and emulsions. For more information about Walker visit
walkerind.com.
About Comcor Environmental Limited
Comcor
Environmental is a privately held Canadian company founded in 1985
and based in Cambridge, Ontario
that has developed around a nucleus of specialized personnel
serving a broad range of clientele including both the private and
public sectors. With projects across Canada, the firm is a recognized specialist in
the engineering, design, testing, approval, construction, operation
& maintenance, and monitoring of landfill gas collection,
flaring and utilization systems. For more information visit
www.comcor.com
Forward-Looking Information
Forward-looking information, or forward-looking statements, have
been included in this news release to provide information about
Enbridge and its subsidiaries and affiliates, including
management's assessment of Enbridge and its subsidiaries and
affiliates' future plans and operations. This information may not
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future outcomes or statements regarding an outlook. Forward-looking
information or statements included in this news release include,
but are not limited to, statements with respect to the partnership
between Enbridge, Walker Industries and Comcor Environmental (the
"Partnership"), including its plans and projects, including the
Niagara RNG facility, and expected benefits.
Although Enbridge believes these forward-looking statements are
reasonable based on the information available on the date such
statements are made and processes used to prepare the information,
such statements are not guarantees of future performance and
readers are cautioned against placing undue reliance on
forward-looking statements. By their nature, these statements
involve a variety of assumptions, known and unknown risks and
uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results,
levels of activity and achievements to differ materially from those
expressed or implied by such statements. Assumptions regarding the
expected supply of and demand for energy, and the prices thereof,
are material to and underlie all forward-looking statements, as
they may impact current and future levels of demand for Enbridge's
services and for the Partnership. Similarly, exchange rates,
inflation, interest rates and the COVID-19 pandemic impact the
economies and business environments in which Enbridge operates and
may impact levels of demand for Enbridge's services and the
Partnership as well as the cost of inputs and are therefore
inherent in all forward-looking statements. Due to the
interdependencies and correlation of these macroeconomic factors,
the impact of any one assumption on a forward-looking statement
cannot be determined with certainty. The most relevant assumptions
associated with forward-looking statements on potential or
announced projects and projects under construction, including
estimated completion dates, include the following: the COVID-19
pandemic and the duration and impact thereof; the impact of
customer, government and regulatory approvals on construction and
in-service schedules and cost recovery regimes; the availability
and price of labour and construction materials; the effects of
inflation and foreign exchange rates on labour and material costs;
the effects of interest rates on borrowing costs; the impact of
weather; and the ability of our joint venture partners to complete
and finance proposed projects.
Enbridge's forward-looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties, including, but not limited to those risks and
uncertainties discussed in this news release and in Enbridge's
other filings with Canadian and United
States securities regulators. The impact of any one risk,
uncertainty or factor on a particular forward-looking statement is
not determinable with certainty as these are interdependent and
Enbridge's future course of action depends on management's
assessment of all information available at the relevant time.
Except to the extent required by applicable law, Enbridge assumes
no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking
statements made in this news release or otherwise, whether as a
result of new information, future events or otherwise. All
subsequent forward-looking statements, whether written or oral,
attributable to Enbridge or persons acting on Enbridge's behalf,
are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary
statements.
For more information, contact:
Leanne McNaughton
Enbridge, Senior Communications Advisor
Phone: (1) 519-619-0370
leanne.mcnaughton@enbridge.com
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