Ethanol
Biofuel from Municipal Waste - A $70-million waste-to-fuel plant for Edmonton’s Clover Bar waste management facility received its environmental permits on May 20, 2009. “This is North America’s first unconditional commercial permit ever awarded to produce advanced biofuels from sorted municipal solid waste,” said Vincent Chornet, president of Enerkem, a Montreal-based green technology company which is working on the project with Greenfield Ethanol, Canada’s leading ethanol producer.Little Plant on the Prairie - This Minto area hog farmer will soon be producing ethanol (the ethanol article from the March 22, 2007 Manitoba Co-operator starts in the middle of the first page of the link). PDF file is 872 KB.
Developing Manitoba's Ethanol Industry - This web site describes the provincial government's programs associated with ethanol production in Manitoba.
Canada's Federal Government Ethanol Web Site - Hosted by Natural Resources Canada, this site contains federal initiatives for ethanol in support of the Government of Canada's target of increasing the proportion of our gasoline that is blended with ethanol from approximately 7 percent today to 35 percent by 2010.
Fueling a New Economy: Exploring the Opportunities of Ethanol Production in Manitoba - Description of ethanol production opportunities in Manitoba.
Woodstock Revisited - This article from the March 8, 2007 Economist describes how new techniques for producing ethanol could make trees the biofuel of the future. (March 2007)