Prince Edward Island Firm to Design Pilot-Scale Ethanol Plant
(CBC News) Diversified Metal Engineering in Charlottetown has been awarded the contract to design and build a pilot-scale ethanol plant, but it’s not on P.E.I.
It will be located in Edmundston at the New Brunswick Community College campus there and will be the second facility of its kind in Atlantic Canada.
New federal legislation requires that gasoline in Canada have an average of five per cent ethanol content—renewable fuel—aimed to reduce oil consumption. The project is getting financial support from Ottawa and the New Brunswick government.
Diversified Metal Engineering president Peter Toombs said no business in Atlantic Canada can produce ethanol at a commercial level so this project comes at a perfect time. READ MORE