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Prairie Clean Energy announces go ahead for flax processing plant

Jun 22, 2022 | 5:23am

Prairie Clean Energy has announced go-ahead for a million dollar flax processing plant for Regina. CEO Mark Cooper says the company will be open for business this fall, buying waste flax straw and turning it into biomass pellets. Cooper says the facility will produce 60 thousand tons of pellets per year. The pellets will be […]

Prairie Clean Energy of Regina sees big market in Europe for flax straw fuel pellets

May 4, 2022 | 2:17pm

Russia’s attack on Ukraine has opened a huge opportunity for Canadian biomass production. Mark Cooper is CEO of Prairie Clean Energy in Regina. He has just returned from the ARGUS world biomass conference in England. He was an exhibitor. Prairie Clean energy is three years into a plan to process flax straw (and wood) for […]

Flax straw plant to be open in Regina in April

Jan 24, 2022 | 9:30am

  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 […]