Canadian CDM project developer LFGC Corporation is to roll out its partnership with Malaysian firm PJI Holdings to develop landfill gas projects in Vietnam, the CDM Director Gerry Hamaliuk said.

The two firms signed a memorandum of understanding this week to form a joint venture, PJI-LFGC JVC, to work with a Vietnamese agency, the urban environment company (URENCO), to work on “a number of projects” in the landfill gas sector in Vietnam, Hamaliuk told Point Carbon.

“We expect to have them up and running within 12 months,” he said. The approval process through the CDM Executive Board would take “six to eight months”, he said, adding that the yield would be around 400,000 CERs per year.

The Canadian firm already has two projects registered by the board. For its landfill projects, it expects to use the standard ACM001 methodology.

The two companies are already cooperating across southeast Asia. As well as landfill gas projects, they are working on developing projects that use empty fruit bunches, the waste product of palm oil milling, as a fuel for new biomass cogeneration plants in Malaysia itself.

Hamaliuk thought there could be demand for the CERs in Canada in the future, despite the political uncertainty with the current federal government prevaricating on whether it should, or could, respect the country’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction target under the Kyoto Protocol.

“I think that buyers will develop in Canada. It’s a matter of time, with the new government getting some of their policy issues straightened out,” he said, adding that some regions, such as Quebec undertaking to respect the Kyoto obligation as a devolved target for the region. Hamaliuk said he expected the regional government to recognize CERs as a compliance instrument under whatever regime it installs.

PJI Holdings Berhad is listed on the main board of Bursa Malaysia. Its group comprises companies that specialise in electrical & mechanical engineering services, mainly for the infrastructure energy, petrochemical, telecommunications & construction industries.

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The application of LFG recovery and utilization is a typical Green House Gas (GHG) emission reduction project, in compliance with the Kyoto Protocol and could be developed under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) frame. About half the revenue stream for the project will be derived from selling emission credits on the international market.

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