Government Gives $5 Million To Ethanol Plant

The Conservatives seem to be thinking green these days.
Stephan Harper has given $5.05 million dollars to a ethanol facility in Unity, Saskatchewan. This ethanol facility will help the good ole environment in a fuel related matter called E85 gas. E85 gas is a mixture of gasoline and ethanol, 85% of it being ethanol, which i think it kinda cool.

The Ethanol will be made from 68, 000 tonnes of high starch and soft wheat. This project is being conducted by the company: North West Terminal or NWT. NWT are an independent grain-handling company and they plan to employ 16 workers for the new ethanol plant in Unity. This plant will produce 25 million litres a year of ethanol for E85 gasoline.

The idea of an ethanol plant was created by NWT last year. The idea became a sucessful one when they became the "first project in Canada to receive money from the ecoAgriculture Biofuels Capital Initiative." The only downside I found to this article is that, a U.S. engineering firm has been hired for the construction of the plant... it would of been better if NWT and the government would of hired a Canadian company. But, in the end the my main thought is that at least we are getting this much needed plant anyways.

Yet, there has been rumours circulating that funding so much money into an ethanol project plan is a bad idea. These rumours come from the fact that E85 is yet to be seen at the pumps. But, I believe this is an awesome idea and I definetely see others following in Unity's direction.

Concern for the environment has become such a huge issue today and with ideas of E85 ethanol fuel on rise, this will truly help out our Saskatchewan farmers.
Who knows, maybe in the near future we'll see Arnold schwarzenegger promoting ethanol fuel as he did with the Hybrid.
So, it's time for everyone to think green and start burning that starch!