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(LtoR) Stephen Mandel, Mayor of Edmonton, holds refuse to be turned to ethanol, Vincent Chornet, President and CEO of Enerkem and Donald Pierce, President of GreenField Ethanol's Advanced Biofuels Group, hold flasks representing the thermochemical process, and Doug Horner, Alberta Minister of Advanced Education and Technology, holds a gas can representing the final product during a photo op at Edmonton's Waste Management Centre June 26, 2008. The site will become the world's first industrial scale municipal waste-to-ethanol facility.

 


GreenField’s Chatham Plant
 


Inside GreenField’s Chatham plant
 


Corn storage tanks at GreenField’s Chatham plant
 


GreenField’s Johnstown plant
 


View of the Johnstown plant, Prescott Grain Terminal and St. Lawrence Seaway
 


GreenField’s Tiverton plant
 


GreenField’s Varennes plant
 


Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl and GreenField President Bob Gallant at the Varennes plant
 


Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and GreenField President Bob Gallant at the Varennes plant
 

 

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Research and Innovation

For 20 years, GreenField has used new technology to increase ethanol yields and energy efficiency.

Commentary

For the first time since 9/11, a new issue has tied health care as the number one concern of Canadians, as revealed by a Gandalf group poll in July.

Cellulosic Ethanol

Canada’s ethanol pioneer: working to produce cellulosic ethanol from waste on a commercial scale.

Buy and Sell Grains

For over 20 years, GreenField has been buying corn from local producers and returning a third of it to farmers as distillers’ grains, a valued form of livestock feed.

Quick Facts

In North American, fuel ethanol is currently produced mostly from starch containing crops such as corn, wheat and milo.