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Panda Energy, Dallas, has announced that it will build a 100 million gallon fuel ethanol plant in Haskell County, Kansas. The plant will use a billion pounds of cattle manure each year as a renewable fuel to power the plant's operations. The $120 million facility will refine US corn and milo into fuel ethanol that will be blended with gasoline to produce a clean, low-cost fuel for America's cars and trucks. The ethanol produced in this plant will replace the need to import 100 million gallons of gasoline each year.
The Haskell project is Panda's third fuel ethanol project announced this year. In May, Panda announced a 100-million gallon plant in Hereford, Texas and in August the company announced that its second facility would be built in Yuma, Colorado. The combined production of the three announced Panda fuel ethanol plants will replace 300 million gallons of imported gasoline annually. These projects will use a total of three billion pounds of cattle manure a year as a renewable fuel. The manure is gasified...