News Citizen volunteers, county officials and employees of a cement plant in LaPorte are joining forces to determine if burning wood waste at the plant can help the county and the company.
Many questions remain, but several committees are working on the answers.
Interested citizens met at the county courthouse in December to list potential benefits and concerns. In the next several months, committees will be researching issues such as emissions, wood fuel sources, transportation and ways to turn wood into a replacement fuel for coal or natural gas. We just want the community to help us with this investigation. The LaPorte plant currently gets 85 percent of its energy from coal and 15 percent from natural gas. Chura said coal supply is not a problem, but cost is.