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About GALFAD waste management project- CDM

The GALFAD (Gasification, Landfill gas, Anaerobic Digestion) project located in Bali, Indonesia, is a multi-phase project including the collection of landfill gas (LFG) from an open dumpsite, a 2MW power generator using the recovered LFG, a pyrolysis gasification (incineration) plant to process the dry portion of the organic waste, and an anaerobic digester. Once completed, the project is claiming to generate 9.6MW of electricity, and to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) by 123, 423 mtCO2e. GALFAD will receive carbon credits from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol.

The project is at the centre of a garbage controversy in Bali. The people of Bali have a long tradition of using indigenous and easily-composted materials in preparing and serving food. But with the growth of tourism there has been a flood of plastics and other non-compostable materials. This flood of plastics and non-compostable waste is now overwhelming the ability and capacity of the Balinese to deal with the huge amounts of waste. To deal with this crisis, the Indonesian government has turned towards a waste-to-energy project. This project is creating even more controversy with the environmental and social implications it will cause.

Latest developments

2011-07-12 11:26:51

What must happen

Private banks should not provide any support to this project, including CDM advisory services.

Impacts

Social and human rights impacts

Landfill air emissions are toxic and can increase the risk of certain types of cancer. Escaping gases will typically carry toxic chemicals such as paint thinner, solvents, pesticides, and other hazardous volatile organic compounds. Not surprisingly, studies link living near landfills with cancer. Women living near solid waste landfills where gas is escaping, for example, have been found to have a four-fold increased chance of bladder cancer and leukemia.

No matter how technologically advanced a landfill is claimed to be, it will eventually leak and contaminate ground water supply. It is a terrible waste of land, especially in poor countries where millions live in slum areas, unable to afford decent living spaces.

To make matters worse, the GALFAD project will contaminate its surrounding communities not only through its landfill but additionally, through the operation of a gasification plant. Gasification is a staged incineration technology that proponents claim do not have toxic consequences for the environment and communities. In truth, staged incinerators emit comparable levels of toxic emissions when compared with conventional mass burn incinerators. Studies show that dioxins, an extremely toxic class of pollutants, are created in gasification incinerators. Dioxins cause a wide range of health problems including cancer, immune system damage, reproductive and developmental problems.

Environmental and climate impacts

Landfills rely on a constant stream of organic matter to produce methane. In the United States, they are the largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions. Landfill gas systems directly compete with local recycling and composting efforts that offer better use for organic materials.

The project will not only increase greenhouse gas emissions and pollution, it will also destroy a successful and internationally-recognized, locally-managed waste program that has empowered a vulnerable and often unrecognized sector of workers, the informal waste workers.

Funding being given by the CDM to incineration and landfill projects represents a lost opportunity to reduce pollution and help improve the standards of living and welfare of some of the poorest people in the world. Also, funding waste disposal technologies incentivizes further waste disposal - i.e., the destruction of valuable resources that would otherwise have been recovered with significant climate benefits.

Governance

Applicable norms and standards

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

Updates

2011-07-12 11:26:51

GALFAD will receive carbon credits from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. The original project proponent was Pt. Navigat Organics Energy (NOEl), in partnership with Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., Ltd, but the project was sold in 2009 to Pt. Manunggal Energy. Currently, this project is at a standstill.

To date, only the LFG collection facility has been built. Once all phases are complete, the electricity generation capacity is estimated to reach 9.6MW, and the estimated GHG reductions are estimated at 123,423 mtCO2e.

Financiers

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., Ltd.  is the investment banking arm of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), a financial services company which is the largest in Japan measured by assets. The company's headquarters are in Tokyo, Japan.

Related companies

PT Navigat Organic Energy Indonesia (PT NOEI) Indonesia

News

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Anti-waste activist wins global environmental prize but carbon credits threaten program, increase emissions

2010-09-11 | www.no-burn.org
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As Tourism Rises in Bali, What to Do With Waste?

2009-05-24 | The New York Times
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Yuyun Ismawati: Goldman Environmental Prize winner 2009

2009-04-11 | Bali, Indonesia | www.no-burn.org
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Clean Development Mechanism: dump it, don´t expand it

2008-12-05 | www.no-burn.org

Documents

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ngo documents
2011-07-11 00:00:00

Dodgy deals – CDM incinerator case GALFAD – Bali, Indonesia

2011-07-11 00:00:00 | GAIA
ngo documents
2011-07-11 00:00:00

Wasting the Climate: Kyoto Protocol agency supports incinerators

2011-07-11 00:00:00 | GAIA
ngo documents
2010-12-11 00:00:00

Incinerators: Myths vs. Facts

2010-12-11 00:00:00 | GAIA
ngo documents
2010-07-11 00:00:00

Financing the Demise of Waste Worker Livelihood, Community Health, and Climate

2010-07-11 00:00:00 | Ananda Lee Tan, GAIA
ngo documents
2009-07-11 00:00:00

Carbon credits threaten groundbreaking program

2009-07-11 00:00:00 | GAIA
other documents
2008-10-11 00:00:00

UNFCC: “Avoided emissions from organic waste through alternative waste treatment processes”

2008-10-11 00:00:00 | UNFCC
other documents
2006-09-26 00:00:00

PT Navigat organic energy Indonesia integrated solid waste management (GALFAD) project in Bali

2006-09-26 00:00:00 | Det Norske Veritas
other documents
2005-05-07 00:00:00

CDM project overview: GALFAD

2005-05-07 00:00:00

Links

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternative/ Glbal Anti-Incinerator Alliance

NGO focused on stopping incinerator projects
http://www.no-burn.org/

Balifokus

Bali NGO working on local recycling projects
http://www.balifokus.org/

UNFCCC GALFAD page

http://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/Validation/DB/BVEXCWSD83I7778HGPCBO9EOGMIYOZ/view.html

Brief history

On the opposite side and in direct contrast to the GALFAD project, is a community-based solid waste management program run by Balifokus, a local non-government organization (NGO). Balifokus' founder, Yuyun Ismawati, was awarded a Goldman Prize in 2009 for her contribution towards empowering the informal sector of waste workers by making them a valued partner in organized waste collection. Balifokus teaches villagers to separate their household waste and turn organic waste into compost or pig feed. The organization has been successful in getting waste recognized as a valuable resource full of recyclable and compostable materials that are useful and can provide income to communities.

GALFAD seriously threatens Balifokus' work. GALFAD will claim CERs for "avoidance of methane emissions from decomposing landfill waste." But the existing practices of farmers feeding organic waste to pigs or turning it into compost do not create significant quantities of methane. GALFAD will instead throw organic waste into the dump to purposefully create methane, a global warming gas that is 72 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year time frame. Some portion of these emissions will be captured and burned to claim carbon credits as the rest escapes into the atmosphere.

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