Salem, Oregon Biodiesel Plant May Add Lab and Campus

Lab Manager Magazine
Posted: 3/17/2009

A Willamette Valley consortium plans to turn the area’s only commercial biodiesel plant into a research and education campus. Given the current emphasis on renewable energy and economic stimulus, backers feel the political climate is ripe to get the project moving.

Chemeketa Community College, Pacific Biodiesel Technologies and developer Wildwood Inc. submitted a proposal for $10 million in funding to Oregon’s congressional delegation. The project would be built over three years and could create 450 jobs, said Travis Henry, vice president of Wildwood.

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