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From a guest
editorial by Stan Zdrojowy in
The Tomah Journal:
We are now in the midst of another controversy on the Monroe County level. As I see it, our current landfill is almost full ... is that correct?
. . .since landfills generate methane gas, cannot we devise methods to capture that gas for commercial use. This would make landfills a valuable resource, and we would be scrambling to create them for their commercial value. It is unfortunate that this was not an option before the City of Tomah spent a million dollars or so to dig up the landfill on Noth Avenue several years ago to haul it to another landfill. Could we not have tapped that valuable resource of methane gas somehow and made that landfill a positive rather than a negative? An added complication ... in order to dig up that landfill to move the garbage, a whole forest of trees was eliminated (were they hauled to the landfill?). Was that good for the environment to cut down those trees?
. . .And as long as I am on the subject of alternative energy, can I put in a plug for wind generation?
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