They're critical that the province is going to subsidize production here. Manitoba will pay ethanol producers $26 million in the next year to ensure motorists don't pay extra at the pump because of the mandated use of higher-cost ethanol. That's a drop in the bucket compared with the estimated $8 billion a year in American and state government supports south of the border. Jim Cornelius, the organization's executive director, said while he's pleased some of his group's biggest donors -- Prairie farmers -- are finally getting a good price for their grain, he's worried "rapidly rising prices for staple grains are going to increase (global) hunger. wHog and beef producers are crying foul about government subsidies for ethanol production, as competition for grain from ethanol makers drives...
I was just talking to a Pembina Valley farmer who has been advertising his interest in renting land to farm and he's had no interest for more than two weeks," said the agriculture newsletter publisher Harry Siemens. "Farmers are feeling pretty good for a change. "Yes I think the biofuel industry will help but we just coming out of a few years at the bottom of the cycle," he said. "We will try to take advantage of it but at the same time we will be treading carefully. It takes a while to work the high steel prices and increase in the Canadian dollar and BSE issues out of the system. But it's been a long time since there has been good news." [John Buhler]'s healthy skepticism is probably not misplaced. [Richard Feltes] pointed out that it took the U.S. 15 years to produce one billion ga...
Brazilian drivers learned a similar lesson long ago: 77 per cent of new cars can run on ethanol, which accounts for half of all transport fuel consumed in the country. "At this rate," says Antonio Galvao, another pilot, who owns four ethanol-fueled planes, "the gasoline engine is heading for extinction. S. President George W. Bush, who arrived in Sâo Paulo last night to begin a tour of five Latin American nations, has also spent a lot of time thinking about fuel recently. Earlier this year he called for America to cut its projected gas consumption by 20 per cent over the next decade, largely by using more ethanol and other biofuels. Bush implied that most of the 130 billion liters required would be homegrown. At any rate, he has not tried to remove the 54-cent tariff America levies o...
The demand on corn stocks for ethanol production has spilled over to other cereals such as wheat and barley. Understanding that corn is the base crop for modern agriculture and that corn along with wheat, barley and oats form the foundation for modern animal agriculture, the complexities of this social, economic and ecologic matrix begin to make themselves felt. The increase in corn and other grain prices should logically put more money into grain farmers' pockets. It has, so far. The problem is the cost of production has also increased almost as fast as the commodity price. The very thing driving the push to increase ethanol production -- high crude oil prices -- is draining the grain growers' pockets almost as fast as the push for more ethanol is filling them. Just as corn and other ...
Hearst and Area Economic Development Corporation plans biomass-to-ethanol fuel plant
Then in 2005, the Calgary-based petroleum company reignited Manitoba's ethanol dreams by announcing plans for a $145 million expansion that would increase ethanol production in Minnedosa to 130 million litres per year. The simple answer is no, with a 10 per cent ethanol blend. Almost every car manufactured in the last three decades will function perfectly if not better with a 10 per cent ethanol blend, according to ethanol producers. Most current model cars have approved ethanol blends for use under the vehicle warranties. Right now most Husky and Mohawk gasoline stations already sell ethanol-blended gasoline under the brand name Mother Nature's Fuel. Once the new ethanol mandate in Manitoba takes effect in mid-2007, you should begin seeing ethanol blends available at most gas stations ...
The number of filling stations selling E85 has also increased. There are now 1,783 E85 filling stations listed on the www.e85refueling.com website. Minnesota has the largest number of stations, and the U.S. Midwest has the largest percentage overall of stations. Canadian regular gasoline now has between five and 10 per cent ethanol but there are currently only three filling stations selling E85 -- all in Ontario. They are located in Chatham, Guelph and Ottawa. There is no shortage of vehicles on Canadian roads that can use E85 fuel. Depending on powertrain choice, vehicles such as the Toyota Sequoia and Tundra, Nissan's Titan and Armada and Mercedes C-Class sedans can use E85. Ford has eight E85 models for 2009, while Chrysler has 11 models and GM has 23 2009 models that can operate on...
The latest estimates indicate the U.S. ethanol industry will consume more than a quarter of the U.S. corn crop this year, despite a massive surge in acres and a projected record production. Gregory Page, Cargill's incoming president and chief operating officer, says mandated biofuel targets could result in new agricultural land being brought into production, possibly at the environment's expense. It also marks an interesting shift in priorities. No one has mandated how much pork you have to eat but if they've mandated how much ethanol you have to put in your car, then it has the effect of putting fuel ahead of food. From a morality standpoint, it can't be right, Page told Reuters.
Obviously Husky is going to have a bit of an advantage with a plant that is virtually completed," [Jim Crone] said. "But it doesn't say that at some point (other Manitoba companies) can't compete even domestically with Husky. [Dennis Floate] said that in the next several weeks, Husky employees in Minnedosa will be busy fine-tuning equipment, filling the plant's grain silos -- wheat is the operation's feedstock -- and making test batches of ethanol. "You have to make sure that the water is out of there," [Ted Stoner] said. Otherwise, customers will find "they're going to get big slugs of water coming up with their ethanol and, oooh, the gasoline engines don't like running on that stuff."
Since then, the province has been waiting for an expansion of the sole ethanol plant in Manitoba. The Husky Energy ethanol plant in Minnedosa is going from 10 million litres per year to 130 million litres per year. Grain is milled, mixed with water and cooked. Then enzymes are added to change the starch to a sugar. Yeast is added, causing the grain to ferment. The substance, now known as mash, is then distilled or heated so it sends off a vapour. The vapour is cooled into liquid form, which is ethanol. It is treated with a small blend of gasoline to make a fuel-grade ethanol. When the ethanol mandate kicks in, almost every gas station in Manitoba will sell ethanol-blended fuel. It will be a requirement that 85 per cent of the gas sold is gasohol, or an ethanol blend.
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