Melbourne sites vie for waste-fed biofuel plant

Biofuels company Coskata plans to name a Melbourne-based site for its US$400 million waste-to-ethanol plant within the next few months. Wes Bolsen, chief marketing officer of the U.S.-based company that has attracted business partners, including car maker GM Holden and the Victorian government, told Business Day he expected five potential sites to be whittled down to three within days, with a single site nominated by January. The Coskata plant proposed for Melbourne should be able to produce about 250 million liters of ethanol a year from the system. (October 11, 2010)