Canada’s Vitality Products halts ethanol feasibility study

In Canada, Vitality Products halted in feasibility study for an ethanol plant in northwestern Washington state, just across the border from the British Columbia-based vitamin producer that announced an ethanol entry in 2007. The company said that work on the feasibility study would resume when market conditions imporve. The company’s trouble stems from delays in acquiring the site from British Petroleum.

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