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Ontario Provides C$7.5M for Two Biofuel Projects

Posted on July 05, 2008

The Government of Ontario is providing C$7.5 million (US$7.4M) to support two biofuel projects.Ontario is providing C$5 million to support the new Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative Resources at the University of Western Ontario's (UWO) experimental field station. The institute, together with Agri-Therm Limited, is investigating pyrolysis as a process to turn agricultural byproducts into fuel and other chemicals, including organic insecticides, pesticides and fertilizers.The goal of the facility is to quickly move next generation biofuel research from the lab benches to a large...

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