Originally published June 15 2005
SeQuentian Biofuels and Pacific Biodiesel are building the first Oregon biodiesel refinery
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
In a joint venture, SeQuentian Biofuels and Pacific Biodiesel will begin developing renewable fuel resources on Kelly Point peninsula in Portland.
A joint venture between SeQuential Biofuels (earlier post) and biodiesel pioneer Pacific Biodiesel is developing the first biodiesel refinery in Oregon.
Production would begin in November with the facility expected to produce in its first year a million gallons of ASTM-certified biodiesel from used cooking oil.
Nothing is more sustainable than using recycled cooking oil to produce a healthy fuel choice, especially when we can manufacture it here in Oregon, reducing environmental impact of biodiesel transport and contributing to the local economy through job growth.
With demand growing, we�(TM)re working aggressively to expand biodiesel availability, as well as fleet and retail markets for biodiesel throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Investors in the project include Wells Fargo Bank, the Oregon Department of Energy and a group of minority investors that includes Cameron Healy, founder of Kettle Foods; John Miller, a biodiesel user and Oregon businessman committed to sustainability; Ron Tyree, owner of Tyree Oil, a Eugene-based petroleum distributor; and country music artist Willie Nelson, who helped launch the Willie Nelson Biodiesel Company, which provides biodiesel fuel to tanks and truck stops in Texas.
Oregon-based Kettle Foods, a maker of all-natural potato chips and nut butters, will supply all of its used cooking oil to the new facility.
The company already runs a fleet of company cars on biodiesel.
Kettle Foods also maintains one of the largest commercial solar arrays in the Pacific Northwest that last year produced 5 percent of the company�(TM)s electricity.
SeQuential Biofuels is a biofuels marketing and distribution company with offices in Eugene and Portland, Oregon, and is currently the state�(TM)s largest distributor of biodiesel.
It was commissioned to build the Virginia Biodiesel plant visited by President Bush in recent weeks, has built a biodiesel plant in Japan and has two additional US biodiesel plants currently under construction.
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