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To: abuelita who wrote (11049)	8/2/2010 12:41:46 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24232

I hear that once in a while. I much prefer it to "If you don't leave now, I'll call security." So, if you don't mind, I'll just quietly mosey back to my own table and we can forget this ever happened. :>)

To: abuelita who wrote (11049)	9/1/2010 10:43:27 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24232

If you're still looking for a response, try "Ain't we cool?". Canada company builds major waste-to-biofuel plant Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:13pm EDT VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - A Canadian company started construction on Tuesday on what it says is the world's first industrial-scale plant to turn municipal waste into biofuel. Privately-owned Enerkem Inc said the C$80 million ($75 million) facility in Edmonton, Alberta, will produce enough biofuel to keep more than 400,000 cars a year running on a 5 percent ethanol fuel blend. Canada, which has invested heavily in the biofuel industry as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, is set to announce in September a 5 percent renewable content mandate for gasoline. Some of the country's provinces already have such a mandate in place. Enerkem has signed a 25-year agreement with Edmonton to convert 100,000 tonnes of the city's solid waste into biofuels annually. The plant, which will create 180 direct and indirect jobs, is scheduled to start operations toward the end of 2011. Municipal waste-to-biofuels plants are on the drawing board in several U.S. states but several were halted as funds dried up during the global recession. Montreal-based Enerkem was founded in 2000 around an in-house developed technology to produce biofuels through a heat-induced gasification process. It operates two plants in Quebec: a pilot facility and a commercial-scale plant. The latter uses electricity poles as feedstock. ($1=$1.06 Canadian) (Reporting by Nicole Mordant; editing by Jeffrey Jones) ca.reuters.com