Biodiesel Plant To Covert Crops to Fuel in 2008
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CORTLANDVILLE — A new $17.5 million biodiesel plant in Cortland County will be turning crops from local farmers into fuel by the middle of next year, state officials said Friday. The plant will crush canola and soybeans, producing oil that will be piped to a refinery on the same site for conversion to biodiesel fuel, lawmakers and State University of New York officials said. Morrisville State College developed the idea for the project, which will be funded with private and public money, including $4 million from the SUNY Research Foundation, and owned by the private firm Empire AgriFuel LLC. Construction is expected to begin this fall. High-protein animal feed will be one of the byproducts of the plant near Cortland.
