Canadian company plans Arkansas biofuel plant.A Canadian company has taken the first steps toward building a $40 million biomass-to-biofuel plant in the El Dorado El Dorado, legendary country of South America El Dorado (ĕl`dərä`dō, –rā`–) [Span.,=the gilded man], legendary country of the Golden Man sought by adventurers in South America. area. Dynamotive Energy Systems Corp. of Vancouver said its new U.S. subsidiary, Dynamotive USA Inc., had entered a long-term contract to buy sawdust sawdust used as litter for chickens and bedding for horses. Sawdust made from treated timber may cause pentachlorophenol and other wood preservative poisoning. Fungi growing in sawdust litter in poultry houses may cause poisoning in the birds. from Springhill Land & Timber of Taylor (Columbia Cunty). The sawdust will be used as "feedstock feed·stock n. Raw material required for an industrial process. Noun 1. feedstock - the raw material that is required for some industrial process raw material, staple - material suitable for manufacture or use or finishing " for a plant that produces a product called BioOil, which can be used as a replacement for certain heating oils. "This opportunity will be helpful to the timber industry in our area mostly because some of the products that are used we have not had a market for in the past," said Lamar Smith Lamar Smith may refer to:
"It's an exciting thing. It's a new technology, and it's something that Gov. [Mike] Beebe campaigned on," said Don Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. of the El Dorado Chamber of Commerce. No exact location for the plant has been announced. A final site selection is expected by the end of 2009, with construction to begin in 2010 and production to begin in 2011. About 60 permanent jobs will be created, Wales said. |
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