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Edmonton Houses Biofuel First in Canada
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Edmonton will hosue the world's first industrial scale facility to produce biofuels from municipal solid waste. The City has signed a 25-year agreement with GreenField Ethanol, Canada's largest
ethanol producer and Enerkem, a leading biofuels technology company.
The $70 million biofuels facility will initially produce 36 million litres of biofuels per year and reduce Alberta's carbon dioxide (CO(2)) footprint by more than 6 million tonnes over the next 25 years - the
equivalent of removing 12,000 cars off the road every year.
The City of Edmonton and the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Energy Research Institute (AERI) are contributing $20 million to the facility. The City of Edmonton will also contribute $50 million to a related processing facility and research facility. AERI's total contribution to all the
components is $29 million.
This plant is the first to be announced by Greenfield Ethanol and Enerkem since the recent announcement of their partnership to jointly design, build and operate commercial next generation ethanol plants.
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Barry
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Jun 26, 2008, 7:30 PM
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