Ethanol Plant Gets Clean Environmental Report
(CBC News) Ethanol plant gets clean environmental report
A major ethanol research facility in Cornwall, P.E.I. is one step closer to opening.
At a public meeting Tuesday night, Stantec Consulting said it found there is would be no environmental problems created by the Atlantec Bioenergy plant, which intends to research producing ethanol from sugar beets.
…Five years ago Atlantec attracted controversy with its proposal to build a commercial plant on P.E.I. that would produce 85 million litres of ethanol a year. That would have required 10,000 hectares of sugar beets in a four-year rotation. The provincial government didn’t like the idea.
But the research facility though is backed by $3 million in government grants and loans, and Atlantec VP Ron Coles is optimistic about the future. READ MORE
