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Inauguration of the first ethanol manufacturing plant in Quebec

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Khatir Soltani
Last June 20, Canada's leading ethanol producer, GreenField Ethanol, officially opened its first ethanol manufacturing plant in the province of Quebec. Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Chuck Strahl, toured the Varennes-based plant (South shore of Montreal) with GreenField Ethanol's Chairman Kenneth Field as well as President and CEO Robert Gallant. The complex is part of a network of five operating facilities that will produce more than 700 million litres of ethanol per year by 2008.


GreenField's Varennes plant will produce 120 million litres of ethanol each year from 12 million bushels of corn grown in the province and supplied by Pro-Ethanol, a group of about 500 Quebec corn farmers who have personally invested in the plant. These 120 million litres of ethanol will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 180,000 tons per year.

Petro-Canada has already purchased all of the ethanol that will be produced at the Varennes plant for the next 10 years. The partnership with GreenField Ethanol will enable the company to provide consumers with gasoline that is blended with up to 10 percent ethanol.
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Khatir Soltani
Khatir Soltani
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