{"id":13622,"date":"2004-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20040218-03n"},"modified":"2004-02-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T22:00:00","slug":"husky-fuels-up-new-ethanol-plant-in-western-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/husky-fuels-up-new-ethanol-plant-in-western-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Husky fuels up new ethanol plant in Western Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG, Manitoba \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.husky-oil.com\/\" >Husky Energy<\/a> said Monday it plans to spend C$90 million to C$95 million ($69 million to $73 million) to build Western Canada&#8217;s biggest ethanol plant, next to its heavy oil upgrader in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p>The plant is one of seven grain-based fuel projects in the works that will boost Canada&#8217;s total ethanol production fourfold, thanks to an injection of C$78 million in federal subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>The Husky operation is scheduled to be up and running by the end of 2005 and will produce 130 million litres (34 million U.S. gallons) of ethanol a year, Canada&#8217;s fifth-largest oil producer and refiner said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The company will receive C$7.8 million for the project from the federal government for the Lloydminster plant, along with C$6.4 million to expand an existing ethanol plant in Minnedosa, Manitoba, to 80 million litres from its existing 10 million litres, according to a federal government release.<\/p>\n<p>Ethanol, a fuel additive made from corn, wheat or other plant sources, emits less greenhouse gases than fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa has said it wants a third of Canadian gasoline to contain at least 10 percent ethanol by 2010, which would require 1.4 billion litres of ethanol a year.<\/p>\n<p>Current production is about 200 million litres, while 7 percent of gasoline sold in Canada is currently blended with ethanol.<\/p>\n<p>Two privately held projects will convert distilleries in Weyburn, Saskatchewan, and Kelowna, British Columbia, to ethanol plants.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has promised another C$22 million to ethanol plants in a second round of subsidies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNIPEG, Manitoba &ndash; Husky Energy said Monday it plans to spend C$90 million to C$95 million ($69 million to $73 million) to build Western Canada&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-13622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13622"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=13622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}