Company proposes making firelogs from biomass

Product Design & Development
By The Associated PressSunday, June 28, 2009
 
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — According to a local official, a proposed JoCo Biomass Production Center could create rural jobs and energy independence by producing artificial fireplace logs from compressed wood materials.
"This is an idea that would not only show return for us, but for the rest of the nation," Josephine County Commissioner Dave Toler said.

The federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act offers incentives for clean energy production. Josephine County has already found one business interested in building a plant to produce biomass fuels from Southern Oregon forests.

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