"Green" fuel -- An opportunity for our area?

Iogen in talks to build ethanol plant in Canada
OTTAWA -- After threatening to build outside the country, Ottawa-based Iogen Corp. is now negotiating with the federal government to locate its long-promised cellulosic ethanol plant in Saskatchewan, a prospect made more likely after Monday's budget allocated $500-million to help underwrite such renewable fuel facilities

Toronto-based Greenfield Ethanol Inc. and its joint-venture partner, SunOpta Inc., are planning to construct a small commercial-scale plant that produce ethanol from fast-growing poplars or aspens that are not used by the forest industry.

The firms are now scouting sites in Ontario and Quebec for a plant that would produce 40 million litres a year of ethanol from trees.

Greenfield now produces 275 million litres of ethanol, mostly from its plant in Chatham, Ont., and is planning to add two additional 200-million-litre plants, one in eastern Ontario and one in southwestern area of the province.

Maybe an opportunity for Smiths Falls and area here ??