Saturday, March 3, 2012

Biofuel plans top $175M.

Byline: Cyndy Cole

Jul. 31--Plans by a local couple to construct an ethanol refinery outside Flagstaff have grown to include a hard alcohol distillery, beer brewery, biomass power plant and carbon-dioxide recapture station.

And it's all somewhat related to thinning the forests.

Diane and Dave Williamson, of Mogollon Brewery, are planning to build a $175 million ethanol refinery and biomass power plant either at Camp Navajo or elsewhere in Coconino County.

The plant would produce up to 59 million gallons a year of ethanol and use 338,000 gallons of water a day -- about half what the 8,000 residents of Doney Park use daily.

"The main …

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