Amanda Peterka, E&E Storyteller
The Promotion Arm announced grants today adding 45 million to expert farmers situate energy crops in six states.
The Biomass Churn out Comfort Convention (BCAP) grants general feeling go on the road to planting camelina, hybrid poplar grass and switchgrass on first-class than 75,000 acres in four divide project areas approximately nearby or plannedBIOMASS deliverance facilities.
The USDA recording came behindhand Obama organization officials touted bioenergy projects at a BIOMASS conference at Centralized Yachting marina down in the dumps the Potomac Spill in Prince George's Prefecture, Md.
Promotion Secretary Tom Vilsack and Try Secretary Steven Chu clear-cut to extra grants for a cellulosic ethanol situate in Emmetsburg, Iowa, and mixed assessment projects as chronicle of the administration's reliance to weaning the clout from imported oil.
Two of the BCAP project areas success subsidy less today's grants general feeling expert farmers advance camelina -- a feedstock for jet fuel -- in California, Montana, Washington and Oregon. The 51,000 acres in inhabitants states general feeling be sponsored by Beaver Biodiesel LLC and AltAir Fuels LLC and general feeling be positioned approximately their facilities.
New-found 7,000-acre project general feeling be believed at spurring strengthen in poplar grass and is sponsored by cellulosic accommodation ZeaChem Inc. for areas exclaim a deliverance skill in Boardman, Ore.
A last BCAP scenario general feeling feature switchgrass on 20,000 acres in Kansas and Oklahoma. That project general feeling be sponsored by Abengoa Bioenergy and positioned approximately a future deliverance skill in Hugoton, Kan.
The projects announced today loving 250,000 acres of BCAP projects in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania that expert farmers advance miscanthus and switchgrass ("E&ENews PM", June 15).
BCAP pays farmers up to 75 percent of sincere command and afterward annual report maintenance expenditure for a number of go.
Vilsack intended offer is subsidy for all BIOMASS projects announced this rendezvous but that BCAP's faraway is hazardous. The House-passed crop growing appropriations bill eliminates subsidy for the program ("E padding-right: 9em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 2.5em; ">"Biomass Opponents (biomass@energyjustice.net) -- http://www.energyjustice.net/biomass/
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