WA: Longview Fibre Seeks Biomass Boiler Permit

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Longview Fibre seeks permit for biomass boiler

By Erik Olson / The Daily News | Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2010 8:00 pm

Longview Fibre Paper/Packaging Inc...will build a $100 million power plant to convert waste wood into renewable energy, a hot commodity for electric utilities that must meet green-energy laws.

Fibre officials said the 65-megawatt biomass plant will burn...38,000 tons of mill waste, including wood chips, sawdust, hog fuel each month.

By 2020, 15 percent of power sold by large Washington utilities will have to come from renewable resources, according to voter-approved Initiative 937.

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