Company Plans Soperton Plant to Turn Pine Scraps into Ethanol The $225 Million Plant is Expected to Bring at Least 69 Jobs to the Town.
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By WALTER C. JONES  ATLANTA - An innovative company from the West has chosen the pine forests of Southeast Georgia as the location for the country's first plant to process pine scraps into ethanol, the alternative fuel mostly distilled from Midwestern corn.
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By Jim Balow  After decades of downsizing and plant closings, a few signs emerged recently that indicate the worst may be over for the Kanawha Valley's chemical industry.   Dow Chemical Co. announced plans in January to expand a unit at its Institute plant.
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Scientists have long known how to turn trees into ethanol, but doing it profitably is another matter. So a wave of public and private funding is pouring into research labs, and venture capitalists have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in cellulosic-technology startups.
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Power company Dominion Resources Inc. said Monday that its electric utility unit agreed to buy a North Carolina plant for $40.2 million in cash plus the assumption $60.5 million in debt and associated costs.
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By Russ Keen, American News, Aberdeen, S.D.  Sep. 22--Ethanol critics who contend the industry burns up more energy than it produces might have to think twice before pointing a finger at the Aberdeen Energy ethanol plant to be built near Mina.
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Business & money: Firm will raise electricity rates by 9.7% and gas prices by 15% from tomorrow
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By Steve Cahalan, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 20--SPARTA, Wis. -- After hearing from a few supporters and far more opponents to the plan, the Sparta City Plan Commission on Monday tabled action for two weeks on a proposed conditional-use permit for the region's first ethanol plant.
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NEW YORK -- America is drunk on ethanol. Farmers in the Midwest are sending billions of bushels of corn to refineries that turn it into billions of gallons of fuel.
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PORTLAND, Maine - International Paper Co., the world&#39;s largest forest products company, has agreed to sell all of the 1.1 million acres of woodlands it owns in Maine and New Hampshire to GMO Renewable Resources LLC for $250 million.
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By Anonymous Stora Enso and Neste oil have agreed to join forces to develop technology for producing new-generation biofuels from wood residues. Stage one comprises the construction of a Euro 14 million ($19 million) demonstration plant at Stora Enso's Varkaus mill in Finland.
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ATLANTA - Shirley Mansour looks dubious as she examines the plastic needles on the 9-foot Sedona pine. &quot;I&#39;m not sure I really want to do this,&quot; she says, circling the $337.50 artificial tree at the Seasonal Concepts store in Roswell, Ga.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Mar. 9--The Payette National Forest is inviting public comment on a proposal that would allow a commercial mushroom harvest in some areas that burned last summer, primarily in the South Fork Salmon River drainage and locations near Stibnite.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Ainsworth Lumber Co. has agreed to pay $457.5 million US to buy three wood-panel manufacturing plants and a related power plant in Minnesota from Potlatch Corp.
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Eager to ensure a supply of fuel for the fleet of flex-fuel ethanol-capable vehicles it is building, G.M. has invested in a start-up bio-fuel producer, Coskata, Inc.
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DuPont and BP have announced they will invest $58 million in biofuel production assets at two facilities in the U.K. The two plan to construct a biobutanol demonstration facility, what the companies call the ... via Inside Greentech
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Tyson Foods Inc.  and  Syntroleum Corp.  are set to announce plans for a $150  million plant that would turn fat from Tyson plants into fuel,  The Wall Street Journal Online reported on Monday.
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Researchers at a national science laboratory in south-central Washington have found a way to achieve in days what takes Mother Nature millions of years &#151; converting wood to mineral.