Oswego County Legislature Chairman Barry Leemann said recently that the project is likely years away and that if it moves ahead, the number of cattle could be limited: “We may say they can only have 15,000 cows,†he said. The project would not be economically feasible at 15,000 cows and therefore could not be located in Oswego County. To place such a limit on the project would effectively prevent the project from occurring.
A company’s announcement that it will rebuild the ethanol facility in Volney that Sunoco bought from bankrupt Northeast Biofuels left a couple of questions. Among them – will the company use union labor, as Northeast Biofuels did? A company official got us answers to our questions. […]
ICM, Inc. announced today that it has signed a contract with Sunoco, Inc., a leading manufacturer and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products, to retrofit an existing, but idled ethanol plant in Fulton. Sunoco’s plant is the largest ethanol manufacturing facility in the northeastern U.S., and is strategically located to supply Sunoco’s retail gasoline network with ethanol as blending component; Sunoco purchased the idled facility in 2009. […]
Ethanol production is at a temporary standstill at Northeast Biofuels as the company works out performance-related issues at the plant with its contractor, Lurgi PSI, Inc. The plant has experienced several production outages since the initial startup, according to plant manager Brian Roach. The most recent outage started Thursday. […]
After two years of construction, Northeast Biofuels sold its first shipment of ethanol Friday. Fastrac Markets purchased the ethanol for blending as “E-10,†which will be sold at Fastrac locations throughout Central New York. The next step for NEB is to focus on sustainability, according to plant manager Brian Roach. […]
Submitted article State Senate Democratic Leader Malcolm A. Smith (D-St. Albans), Senators Darrel Aubertine (D-Cape Vincent) and Dave Valesky (D-Oneida) recently visited the Northeast Biofuels plant in Fulton and discussed efforts to revitalize the Upstate […]
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After an investment of approximately $25 million and months of capital work, the 100-million-gallon-per-year ethanol manufacturing plant began operations in late June and sold its first shipment of corn-based ethanol on June 30.