Sustane s plant in Chester, Nova Scotia. Sustane Technologies
Prince George may become home to two innovative green technology projects, as a pair of proposed biomass and biofuel plants are being considered for the city.
Canfor, Canfor Pulp and Paper and Licella, an Australian company, are behind a joint venture called Arbios Biotech which would use post-consumer biomass to produce advanced biofuels.
Arbios is also working on integrating its technology with a Nova Scotia-based company called Sustane who have developed a new recycling process for municipal waste that diverts waste from landfills and transforms it into clean fuel products and recyclable materials.
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Longtime retired president of Local 9 of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada (PPWC) union, Len Shankel was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia in 1937. Len and a fellow hunting and fishing friend Jim Smith left their hometowns back east and eventually ended up in Prince Rupert in the 50s. Len arrived in 1956 and worked as a longshoreman on the docks in Prince Rupert. It was a point in time when the hiring procedure for casual workers went like this: the dispatcher would stand on a table and look down over the crowd of people looking for work and randomly select what he thought would be a good worker and Len got the job loading and unloading ships docked at the port.