Georgia Natural Gas First Georgia Marketer to Obtain Recycled Natural Gas from Landfill

Georgia Natural Gas First Georgia Marketer to Obtain Recycled Natural Gas from
Landfill

ATLANTA, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Georgia Natural Gas (GNG), the state's
leading natural gas provider, is the first and only natural gas marketer in
Georgia to obtain recycled natural gas from a landfill, helping to conserve
Georgia's precious natural resources. Specially designed equipment at the
landfill collects the methane gas and makes it ready for consumer use.

GNG began purchasing the recycled gas from Georecover-Live Oak LLC, a Jacoby
Development company, in early 2009. Georecover oversees processing of the gas
at the Live Oak Landfill in DeKalb County, Georgia. The landfill is capable
of producing enough natural gas to fuel approximately 15,000 Georgia homes and
has a potential life cycle of about 20 years. GNG has exclusive rights to
purchase all of the recycled gas produced at the landfill through 2011.

This week GNG launches its fall marketing campaign that focuses on GNG's
leadership in obtaining recycled natural gas. Television, radio, billboards,
print, direct mail and online marketing efforts will feature a distinctive
flickering blue flower in the shape of a gas burner, symbolizing a
clean-burning energy source.

"Georgia Natural Gas is very proud to be the first natural gas marketer in
Georgia to obtain recycled natural gas," said Mike Braswell, president and CEO
of GNG. "Turning landfill waste material into a clean-burning resource helps
preserve our natural resources, and it gives our customers a way to help the
environment simply by being a GNG customer. Natural gas is already one of the
cleanest, most plentiful energy sources, and with the availability of recycled
natural gas, natural gas is more compatible than ever with the country's
energy goals."

What is recycled natural gas?

According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), landfills are the largest
single human source of methane gas emissions in the United States, accounting
for 25 percent of all methane sources. Methane is a greenhouse gas with a high
global warming potential. Landfill methane gas is generated during the natural
process of bacterial decomposition of organic material contained in municipal
landfills. New technologies have made it possible to capture and combust the
methane gas, breaking it apart to form water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other
compounds that are less volatile than methane.

About Georgia Natural Gas

Georgia Natural Gas (GNG) serves nearly half a million residential, commercial
and industrial customers throughout Georgia. GNG is part of SouthStar Energy
Services, a Georgia-based joint venture between AGL Resources (NYSE: ATG) and
Piedmont Natural Gas Co. (NYSE: PNY). SouthStar also operates in Ohio as Ohio
Natural Gas, in Florida as Florida Natural Gas, in the Carolinas as Piedmont
Energy, and in other parts of the Southeast as SouthStar Energy Services. For
more information, visit www.onlygng.com.

SOURCE Georgia Natural Gas

Randy Lewis, for Georgia Natural Gas, +1-404-843-8228