COMPONENT FOUR – PRELIMINARY TECHNICAL REPORT
Other Benefits / Returns Other benefits accrue to the communities in which bio-refineries can be located. These include:
Increased numbers of long-term high paying jobs located in predominantly rural areas and smaller communities. In Ontario, the Bio-Refinery concept presents a relatively short term opportunity for incremental electricity generation capacity, powered by renewable source, clean-burning fuel – ethanol. Anticipated improvement in environmental attributes of the industry through VOC capture-for-use and increased extractives yield and quality. SUNY-ESF anticipates that an indirect result of implementation of the Bio-refinery concept would be reduced chemical use in the kraft pulping process. Profitability of the forest products industry would also improve as a result of reduced costs of production.
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