flax straw

Prairie Clean Energy (PCE), a Saskatchewan-based company, is embarking on a crowdfunding campaign with a goal to raise $1.5 million. As of Friday evening, over $930-thousand has been raised through Front Fundr, an online private market investing platform. “Crowdfunding is really all about bringing investment opportunities and investment experience to everyday Canadians, so under current […]

Saskatchewan-based company Prairie Clean Energy (PCE) was recently approved by the provincial government for a new investor tax credit through the Saskatchewan Technology Startup Incentive Program (STSI), that would give 45 cents back for every dollar invested into the company. President and CEO of PCE Mark Cooper explains in a news release the company’s use […]

A Saskatchewan-based company that focuses on providing sustainable and clean prairie-based biomass fuel, wants to buy flax straw from producers. CEO of Prairie Clean Energy Mark Cooper says they’re buying between 6-thousand to 54-thousand tons of straw at a time, within a 100-kilometre radius around Regina and a 75-kilometre radius around Gilbert Plains, Manitoba. It’s part of their […]

  A Saskatchewan company is building a million dollar flax straw processing plant in Regina. Prairie Clean Energy president Mark Cooper says the waste straw would be processed into pellets and sold worldwide for a biofuel in power plants and other heating uses. Cooper held introductory talks last week in Regina with Japanese power company […]

A Regina-based company has been set up to turn waste flax straw into an energy source for the world. Prairie Clean Energy C.E.O. Mark Cooper says there is a thriving market for selling flax straw as a biomass fuel for power plants. He says a series of town hall meetings are being held this week […]