Canadian company envisions Maine as site for biorefinery
Canadian company envisions Maine as site for biorefinery
Ensyn Corp., which makes heating oil from wood waste, already supplies Bates College and needs more customers before it can build a plant here.
A Canadian company that turns leftover wood from forestry operations into heating fuel has begun supplying Bates College in Lewiston and is seeking enough customers to build a production facility in Maine.
Ensyn Corp. is ramping up production of a proprietary biofuel it has made for more than 25 years at a small facility in Renfrew, Ontario.
Now the company, along with private partners and the governments of Canada and Quebec, is building a $78 million plant at Port-Cartier, Quebec. The Cote Nord facility is designed to produce 10.5 million gallons of oil a year from trees when it comes on line later this year to supply customers in eastern Canada and the northeastern U.S. Sales are aimed at large institutions, such as universities, state buildings and hospitals, that want to reduce the amount of climate-changing carbon dioxide they emit.
Biorefineries can create new markets for sustainable forestry, reduce fossil fuel dependence and support hundreds of jobs in the woods, in trucking and for plant operations.
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Comment by Penny Gray on February 22, 2017 at 12:21pm
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Yeah, makes perfect sense, clear cut our forests to make oil in order to reduce CO2. Trees aren't necessary, all they do is use CO2 to produce oxygen, filter our water, prevent erosion, promote surface cooling and transpiration. Who needs 'em?
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on February 22, 2017 at 7:33am
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I have seen the plantation farms of Mississippi and Alabama, and have seen the results of buildings built from this fast growth forest. The main fault with this sort of tree growth farming was that the wood's structural density was proportional to the time of growth. So I doubt there would be any gain in the value of energy content on the same proportion. We really do not need an introduction of yet another foreign to Maine Species and promotion of an overall degradation of our forests across America. Fast Growth trees may be fine for decorative purpose woods, but not structural, carbon sequestering which is the carbon bonding agent of hydrogen for storage.
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Comment by Brad Blake on February 21, 2017 at 10:36pm
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Finally, something that makes sense for Maine and holds promise of jobs in places like Lincoln or the Millinockets where the pulp & paper mills are gone. No mention, though, that we could take the hundreds of thousands of acres of former farm fields and turn them into plantations of hybrid poplar for feedstock for the refinery. These poplar grow very fast, producing 60 foot high trees in just 8-10 years.
These are the types of ideas for new forest resource based jobs that are far preferable for the economy and the planet than the ridiculous destruction of Maine's natural and scenic resources by sprawling ugly and useless industrial wind power sites.
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I find no research where Oil can be made from wood byproducts. Hydrogen extraction is the only fuel value of wood or other organics without some CO2 release while burning. Even Iron can be used as a fuel with enough energy put into it. But the byproduct of burning Iron is Carbon. Hydrogen ↔ Helium3 ↔ Iron ↔ Carbon are the 1st 4 stages of a Stars decay such as our sun. Add back that energy that is depleated, the reverse happens and Carbon becomes Hydrogen once again as a fuel to again degrade back to Carbon. Energy out ↔ Carbon. Energy in ↔ Hydrogen. (simply stated from Science Channel programs)
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so burning wood that produces CO2 and massive amounts of atmospheric water(a worse green house "gas") is better.
The tortured logic of renewables is stunning!
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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