Power Company Looks at Pig Manure

More than 250 big hog farms, along with some of the province's most polluting industrial plants, are eligible for the program, according to Calgary Herald. If they can find a way to burn biomass - everything from crop stubble and wood chips to potato peels and manure - the province will help with the capital costs.

The province and Hydro say the project could shrink greenhouse-gas emissions, save companies and farmers money, and even reduce the kind of stubble-burning that left Winnipeg in a smoky haze last fall.

Hydro hopes to have the first projects are up and running in two years.

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