Proposed Biomass System for Dryden Area

Efforts to enhance the Dryden-area economy using green energy continue.
Local business owners Bryan Tardiff and Louie Ricci are partnering with German-owned Lambion Energy Solutions to create a direct biomass energy system in Dryden.
The system would consist of a 2-megawatt pellet powered plant, with the partnership of a pellet plant in Ignace.
It would have the ability to supply energy to commercial businesses in a 12-kilometre radius.
The project is still the subject of Provincial approval and could create up to 30 jobs by the fabrication of wood pellets and briquettes.
The energy facility is scheduled to be built in the Norwill Subdivision, with an estimated start-up date of Fall 2011.