SRMs To Heat Building

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Published: March 14, 2011

A Quebec City-area rendering facility will get a federal loan for over $7.7 million to buy and install a boiler system fuelled by specified risk materials (SRMs). Sanimax ACI’s plant at Levis will get a repayable contribution of up to $7,742,954 through the federal Slaughter Waste Innovation Program for an “ultra-modern” biomass boiler in which it will dispose of SRMs, the nervous-system tissues known to harbour the prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

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