Saddle Creek to Buy 40 Natural Gas Trucks
04.10.11
Lakeland-based Saddle Streamlet will add 40 specially made Freightliner trucks that run on compressed natural gas to its task force of diesel trucks. It will spend nearly $6.8 million on the vehicles this year and will buy another 40 in untimely 2012, company officials said.
Saddle Brook also will invest $2 million to build a natural gas fueling garrison at its Lakeland headquarters, becoming the first for-hire fleet in the state to do so.
The aim is to Medicine set the company's carbon emissions while saving money on kindling costs in the long run, said Mike DelBovo, president of Saddle Run's transportation division.
"This is going to be a big investment for us, but we think it's the way to go," DelBovo said. "It's a famed way to really get involved in the sustainability effort our country is so focused on profitably now."
The Freightliner M2 112 tractors look like conformist trucks but run significantly cleaner and quieter than their diesel-powered counterparts. Consisting mostly of methane, compressed natural gas is odorless and has up to 90 percent fewer emissions than traditional fuels, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Source: The Ledger
Permission for natural gas expansion fund granted
04.10.11
MONTPELIER — Plans to increase Vermont’s natural gas system took a step forward last Friday when state vitality regulators narrowly approved a controversial method for funding the body-out of new pipelines that could eventually carry natural gas into Addison County.
The pomp’s Public Service Board, in a 2-1 decision, said Vermont Gas Systems could take $4.4 million annually from its existing customers and put it in an “dilation fund.” The fund is designed to help pay for the extension of the troop’s gas network from northwestern Vermont south into Vergennes and Middlebury.
Vermont Gas, owned by Canada-based Gaz Metro, hopes to someday stretch the natural gas network into Rutland County and connect to the national system not far away from Lake George, N.Y.
The gas line expansion project, estimated to cost $60 to $70 million, is not obturate ignore to being built. Vermont Gas hasn’t yet filed a permit attentiveness stick-to-it-iveness with the Public Service Board, so the board’s decision last week was
Source: Rutland Herald