July 19, 2009 in Business

Inventive Colville man gives life to wood-to-energy technology

Bert Caldwell bertc@spokesman.com, (509) 459-5450

Dale Borgford stands beside a scaled-down version of an Octaflame Gasification System that uses waste wood to produce electricity and several byproducts.
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COLVILLE – Dale Borgford has manufactured tractor blades, claws, grapplers and other equipment for farm and timber industry use in his Colville shop for 29 years.

Simple work compared with the project he and Stevens County officials hope to launch soon at the Kulzer BioEnergy Park, the site of a demolished sawmill on Highway 231 near Valley.

With the support of $4.25 million in federal economic stimulus money, they expect to create at least 40 jobs and put the county at the forefront not only of new energy technology, but an emerging field of soil science focused on charcoal-like biochar.

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