Smithfield, the world's largest hog producer, unveiled the plan last October, saying that it would install manure lagoon covers and anaerobic digesters on 90 percent of its finishing hog farms in North Carolina, Missouri and Utah within the next 10 years. The covers will capture 85,000 tons of methane each year, which will be converted into biogas, Barnes reports.
"Smithfield spokeswoman Lisa Martin said the pork producer and Dominion Energy will pay for the infrastructure, including piping, transportation, gas cleaning and equipment to inject the gas into pipelines," Barnes reports. "Farmers will pay for the digesters and lagoon covers if they choose to participate, Martin said."
In North Carolina alone, the move could help bring 19,000 jobs per year through 2030, according to a 2016 report by nonprofit American Jobs Project.
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