In Colorado, Canada’s Lignol has moved the site of its proposed demonstration-scale wood-based cellulosic ethanol plant from Commerce City to Grand Junction. The $85 million project will be managed by Suncor Energy and will convert trees and wood products to ethanol. commencing in 2012. Canada has been struck by a beetle infestation that has killed vast swaths of Canadian pine trees; the resulting tree waste will be cleared and converted to ethanol by the Lignol project.
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