DOVER TWP., NJ-A proposal is on the table for a waste-to-ethanol plant on a six-acre site along Route 9 here. The potential builder/operator of the facility is Fuel Frontiers Inc., a Washington, DC-based subsidiary of Nuclear Solutions Inc.
According to Jack Young, president of Fuel Frontiers, the facility would operate on a portion of the site that his company would lease from the Ocean County Remanufacturing Center. Under the proposal, the latter would provide the feedstock for the plant, which would largely include used tires and wood chips. The resulting ethanol would be marketed for blending with gasoline.
According to Young, "most of the ethanol produced in the US is made from corn and manufactured in the Midwest. We need a facility here in the Northeast, close to the refineries here."
Further details of the project haven't been released, including the cost. However, Fuel Frontiers has gotten preliminary approval from the New Jersey EDA for $84 million in tax-exempt bond financing to cover the cost of designing, building and starting up the facility's operations. Fuel Frontiers has also entered a strategic agreement with Startech Environmental Corp. of Wilton, CT involved the technology required to convert the waste materials to fuel.
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