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Market for waste-to-energy technologies will reach 6.2 B dollars in 2012

Market for thermal and biological waste-to-energy technologies will reach $6.2 billion in 2012   The market for thermal and biological waste-to-energy (WTE) technologies will reach $6.2 billion in 2012...

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Georgia landfill gas-to-energy facility begins testing phase

A DeKalb County, Ga., renewable energy center located at the Seminole Road Landfill will soon be turning methane gas into cash, according to DeKalb County CEO Burrell Ellis.   On April 16, a ribbon...

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1,247 days into trash-to-ethanol contract and little to show for it

1,247 days into trash-to-ethanol contract and little to show for it   DAY ONE Nov. 20, 2008 The Lake County Solid Waste Management District Board voted 14-4 to award the trash consolidation contract to...

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Test Successful for Gasification Technology

Test Successful for Gasification Technology   Commercial demonstration testing of a new gasification technology has proven successful according to Covanta Energy Corporation. The technology gasifies...

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Enerkem opens waste-to-ethanol plant in Canada

Enerkem Opens Ethanol Plant, May License Trash-to-Fuel System   Enerkem Inc., the Canadian biofuels maker that withdrew its initial public offering in April, began production at a trash-to-ethanol...

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Trash to ethanol saga marked by constant change and missed deadlines

Trash to ethanol saga marked by constant change and missed deadlines   With new owners possibly on the horizon for the proposed Schneider trash-to-ethanol plant, some Lake County waste officials say it...

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Plans for Canada’s largest biofuel facility announced

Plans for Canada’s largest biofuel facility announced   The largest organics biofuel facility in Canada will be built in Surrey, B.C., as a way to divert waste from the landfill and turn it into...

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Enerkem hires 30 workers for Edmonton biofuels plant

Enerkem hires more workers for waste-to-fuel plant in Canada   Enerkem says the challenging task of hiring more than 30 energy workers for its new Edmonton biofuels plant in a hot labour market is...

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Enerkem Gets $48.2 Million Financing for Waste-to-Ethanol System

Enerkem Inc. (NKM), the Montreal-based biofuel company that last year withdrew plans to raise as much as $137.8 million in an initial public offering, raised C$50 million ($48.2 million) to...

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Marion city council discusses $22 million waste-to-ethanol project

The Marion City Council will consider a motion to draft a letter of support regarding a grant application to help fund a $22.7 million waste alternative project on Thursday.   Marion is in talks with...

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Milestone Claimed in Creating Fuel From Waste

After months of frustrating delays, a chemical company announced Wednesday that it had produced commercial quantities of ethanol from wood waste and other nonfood vegetative matter, a long-sought goal...

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Enerkem and GreenField partner in VANERCO

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver today confirmed SDTC’s financial contribution in VANERCO, the joint venture partnership formed by Enerkem (www.enerkem.com) and GreenField (www.gfsa.com) to build...

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Iowa city to take cautious approach on trash-to-ethanol proposal

City plans public forums on trash-to-ethanol proposal   Iowa City leaders say they are taking a cautious approach and will host public forums as they begin negotiations with a company that wants to...

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Enerkem’s biofuel plant in Pontotoc still on drawing board

Five years have passed, and a planned $100 million ethanol plant is no closer to being built.   Little has changed from a year ago, when company officials said they were committed to the project and...

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Animal manure may fuel Iowa’s next biofuel industry surge

Iowa, already one of the nation’s two leading producers of both corn ethanol and biodiesel, may be about to plunge into the production of renewable fuels made from animal manure, municipal waste and...

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