Chilean Pigs Help Keep Lights On Up North ; Japan, Canada Utilities Benefit From Pig Farm's Reduced Methane Gases

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SANTIAGO, Chile Pig manure in Chile will keep neon lights glowing on Tokyo's Ginza in years to come. It's a grand north-south tradeoff to slow global warming: You reduce your "greenhouse gas" emissions so I don't have to cut back on mine.

In this case, a Chilean pork producer is eliminating methane fumes from animal waste and selling the resulting "credits" to Japanese and Canadian utilities, requiring that much less of them as they reduce carbon dioxide emissions at their coal- and oil-burning power plants.

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Chilean Pigs Help Keep Lights On Up North ; Japan, Canada Utilities Benefit From Pig Farm's Reduced Methane Gases

It's one of the biggest deals in a potential multibillion-dollar market, a global exchange a Canadian executive calls "absolutely essential" for meeting targets under the Kyoto Protocol. But some warn that abuses may subvert the ...

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