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Digester To Power Homes And Farms

Last updated on Monday, May 28, 2007
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(FRANKFORT) - Clinton County officials hope to break ground this fall on a project to turn waste into energy.

The Quadra Initiative includes an industrial bio-refinery and a hog waste digester.

Shan Sheridan is the assistant director of the Clinton County Chamber of Commerce. He says the idea for the digester came after talking with hog producers about uses for their by-products.

Sheridan says the digester will power 220 homes and the hog farms. He says the industrial bio-refinery will take food waste from businesses, such as Frito Lay and Archer Daniels Midland.

Both could start operating as early as next spring.


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