Harmac Pacific plans new, $45 million green electricity generation plant at BC pulp mill [From the web]

NANAIMO, BC, Jan. 5, 2012 (Local News) - Work will begin shortly on a new, $45million electrical generation plant at the Harmac pulp mill.

Harmac president Levi Sampson said Nanaimo Forest Products, which owns the mill, and B.C. Hydro have signed a 15-year agreement for the turbo-generation plant to produce 25 megawatts of green electricity, enough to light up 17,000 homes, and add it to the province's power grid.

Sampson said the construction of the plant will begin "immediately" and it is expected the work will provide 85 full-time construction and other technical jobs for the 18 months required to complete the building. The full costs of the project will be covered by Harmac.

While acknowledging that the plant will provide more financial stability for Harmac, Delores Broten, editor of the Watershed Sentinel, said she hopes wood waste with high salt concentrations will not be used in the plant because it would put a lot more dioxins in the air.

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