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Ecoventura offsets carbon emissions through NativeEnergy TravelOffsets

Through their partnership with Native Energy Travel Offsets (NETO), Ecoventura will help finance construction of the Owl Feather War Bonnet Wind Farm, to be located near the town of St. Francis on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. This wind farm is scheduled for completion in 2008. It represents Phase 2 of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s wind development initiative, following the completion of the 750 kW “demonstration” turbine built with significant support from our customers and dedicated in May of 2003.

Following the success of bringing about 25% of the turbine cost to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, helping build the first large-scale Native American owned and operated wind turbine (pictured here), NETO is now helping build Phase II of the tribe’s wind development initiative – the Owl Feather War Bonnet Wind Farm.

Ecoventura has invested in carbon certificates to help fund the farm methane digester generator at the Schrack family farm located near Loganton, PA. The Schrack family has worked their farm since the American Revolution, and the addition of a new methane digester will help to ensure a working landscape for generations to come. By purchasing CO2-equivalent reductions created by the Schrack Farm Methane project, GWG is helping to pay for the above market cost of constructing this renewable energy generator, which was built with reliance on NativeEnergy’s commitment to purchase its RECs, thermal energy offsets and methane abatement offsets.

You can find a link below with a video regarding the Schrack farm:

http://www.waterandwastewater.com/videos/view_video.php?viewkey=152bfb53fdf04b401193

Schrack Family Farm methane project

This 12th-generation family farm project started operations in late August 2006 in Loganton, PA, thanks to consumer and business purchases of all of its lifetime renewable energy credits and CO2-equivalent methane emission reductions.  Our customers’’ purchases have helped build the Schrack digester by providing guaranteed funds with which Schrack was able to secure additional capital needed to make the project go.

The Schrack’s family farm’s anaerobic digester is capturing methane gas from cow manure, and is producing electricity with a 200 kW generator while recovering the waste heat to both heat the digester and reduce the use of oil-fired water heating required on the farm. The farm system will displace electricity on the grid, keeping more than 630 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution out of the air annually, and will also destroy methane that would otherwise have escaped from its manure storage lagoons equivalent to an additional 31,000 of CO2 out of the air over the next 20 years. That’s like keeping 4000 SUV’s off the road for a year.

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