FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 2, 2009
LOCAL and INTERNATIONAL
YERINGTON, NEVADA
A Minden subsidiary of Carbon Bank Ireland Ltd., Desert Hills Dairy Biodigester, LLC
(DHDB ) has acquired land to construct the first biodigester in the State of Nevada at Desert Hills
Dairy in Wabuska, near Yerington, Nevada.
The biodigester will capture methane from the effluent from dairy cattle to generate
clean electrical energy, highly nutritious and non toxic liquid fertilizer, a mulch by product
and enough power to run both the digester and the dairy.
“Desert Hills is the largest and best managed dairy in Northern Nevada”, said Dr.
Michael Ganz, CEO of the new company. “We will use proven digester technology developed by
GHD, Inc. Wisconsin to obtain maximum yields from this installation.”
Methane produced from dairy cattle has a greenhouse gas warming effect
21 times carbon dioxide. A herd of 10,000 cows can produce as much as a billion cubic feet of
ethane annually, according to studies performed at the University of Texas and by
from statistics compiled by the Midwest Rural Energy Council.
“At a time when the Nevada dairy industry has been severely damaged by the recession,
income from the biodigester can make the difference between economic profitability
and failure”, Dr. Ganz added.
Carbon Bank Ireland Ltd, the parent of the Minden-headquartered company recently
signed an agreement with the Chinese banking conglomerate, CITIC Group to harvest carbon
credits earned in China to be sold globally to companies motivated to reduce their carbon
footprints.
Carbon Bank Ireland, Ltd., intends to use the Desert Hills digester technology to
construct (eleven) new biodigesters in Shanghai PRC.
Bill McCann, Board Chairman of Carbon Bank Ireland, “We will encourage the
management of DHDG to sell the biogas or electricity from the digester to that utility which
offers the best price. It remains to be seen whether NV Energy will match prices offered by PG &E
and Southwest Gas. It is a tedious proposition to meet not only all capital and regulatory
requirements for a biodigester, but to comply with the utilities’s procedure and paperwork,” said
McCann. Today DHDG filed a ‘request for proposal’ with NV Energy to sell electricity to that
utility.
Carbon Bank Ireland Ltd. is represented by William J. Raggio, Esq., John Desmond Esq.
of Jones Vargas, LLP, and Price Coopers.
For further information concerning this project, contact Marlene Olsen of Olsen and
Associates, (775) 928-1819, or, info@carbonbankireland.com