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After years of development, a St. Adolphe company is planning to use its biomass burners to help power small communities
At the very least, lower usage targets for both ethanol and other biofuels are expected to reduce interest in expanding production in the sector
Many corn traders tried to shrug off the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to trim the U.S. renewable fuels usage targets for 2014 and 2015, noting that U.S. ethanol production is driven more by operating margins than government-mandated blending requirements and is likely to remain high as long as ethanol makers can make profits. But
Province says biomass will be a $2-billion industry by the end of the decade, but admits it doesn’t even know the current size of the sector
Biomass proponents in Manitoba say new government policies are needed if the industry is going to develop in a meaningful way, especially in the face of cheap natural gas. “The current energy policy in this province, and it’s not Manitoba Hydro’s fault, is to get cheap energy, cheap electricity especially — that’s their mandate, that’s
