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  • Fire danger fuels trees-for-fuel plans (biomass / 'hog fuel')

    01/20/2007 1:20:41 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 10 replies · 2,263+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/20/07 | Jeff Barnard - ap
    O'BRIEN, Ore. - After nearly 90 years of sawing pine and Douglas fir logs into lumber, Rough & Ready Lumber Co. is branching into the energy business, building a $5 million plant to burn logging debris and to produce electricity that it can sell at a "green tag" premium to the regional power grid. "It's ripe," said Rough & Ready President Link Phillippi, who hopes to have a 1.5 megawatt plant up and running by this fall. "There are the economic benefits, the benefits of healthy forests, and the benefit of a country needing renewable energy — clean energy." The...