Ethanol plant moves to Aylmer
By Michael-Allan Marion
Local News - Wednesday, March 29, 2006 @ 01:00
A local farmer-led co-operative will build its $86-million ethanol plant in Aylmer rather than in the Brantford area.
Integrated Grain Processors Co-operative has decided to cast aside an earlier plan to build in the Oak Park North private industrial park in the city’s northwest -- which was meeting with growing community resistance -- and put down stakes in a fully serviced business park on the outskirts of Aylmer in Elgin County.
The board of directors for IGPC -- with more than 600 members mostly from Brant County -- decided to buy 48 acres in that industrial park after the town council voted unanimously to support the project.
The plant will use municipal water that comes by pipe from Lake Erie -- rather than from an aquifer at Oak Park North -- and 15 million bushels of corn to produce 150 million litres of ethanol per year.
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