Lula inaugurates work on Brazil's biggest ethanol pipeline

FoxNews.com (Latina)
Published November 24, 2010

Sao Paulo – President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva inaugurated construction Tuesday of what will be Brazil's biggest pipeline for ethanol.

Lula, a former metalworker, soldered the first pipe joint of the 202-kilometer (126-mile) pipeline, which will be finished in mid-2014 with a capacity for transporting 21 billion liters (5.5 billion gallons) of ethanol per year.

The first phase of the project will start operations in 2012, according to the government.

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