New Carbon proposes landfill gas-to-pipeline project at Hastings municipal landfill

Brian Lammers, a representative of New Carbon, told the Hastings City Council the company proposes to build and operate a landfill gas collection and biogas upgrading facility adjacent to the City of Hastings municipal landfill. "New Carbon is a Midwest based company. We're based in Chicago, Illinois. I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota," Lammers said.

Lammers described the project as a system of horizontal and vertical gas wells on the landfill, a membrane-based upgrading facility north of the landfill along Southern Hills Road, and a lateral interconnection to the Tallgrass pipeline about 1.5 miles northwest of the site. He said the company expects to complete permitting and detailed engineering in 2026, begin construction in late 2027 and bring the project into commercial operation in 2029. "We'll be producing about a 5,000 MMMBtu of gas per year," Lammers said, adding that…