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July 28, 2003SD Group Proposes Biomass to Ethanol Plant for Wyoming Associated Press
GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) – An ethanol plant is being considered in Weston County that could produce the alternative fuel by using wood thinned from the nearby Black Hills National Forest.
South Dakota-based Western Biomass Fuels has proposed building the facility near either Upton or Newcastle. The company’s founder, Randy Cramer, said he was not ready to talk about the proposal.
But according to the Wyoming Business Council, such a plant would be a boon to the Cowboy State, currently home to just one ethanol plant.
“We’ve been working on this for more than three years, but took major leaps forward in the past few weeks,” said David Spencer, the council’s northeast region director.
Western Biomass received a grant from the Wyoming State Forestry Division to research the process and Spencer said the results were “very favorable.”
The plant would cost $25 million to $30 million.
Ethanol is most commonly produced with corn, but can be created using any starch material, including biomass, agricultural waste, municipal solid waste, grasses and trees.
Several years ago, a Boulder, Colo.-based laboratory studied the feasibility of thinning the fire-plagued forests of South Dakota’s Black Hills to produce ethanol.
“South Dakota wasn’t interested in pursuing it, so we jumped on the opportunity for Wyoming,” Spencer said.
Forest officials said it contains ample wood for such uses.
Northeastern Wyoming would be an ideal location for such a plant, ethanol experts said, partly because of its access to railroad lines.
“Most ethanol plants are located near good supplies of natural gas and ample rail lines,” said John Freidig, operations manager for the Central Minnesota Ethanol Co-op who helped set up the Wyoming Ethanol plant in Torrington.
According to Spencer, the proposed new facility could supply the growing ethanol demand in California as one of the farthest west plants in the country.
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