BY MICHAEL-ALLAN MARION
EXPOSITOR STAFF / BRANTFORD


IGPC's plant is among a group of pending ethanol facilities in different parts of the province that are trying to get off the ground and into production in time to meet the Ontario government's mandate.
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If IGPC's application for federal financing is approved, it would speed up construction of its proposed facility in the Oak Park North business park north of Highway 403.

IGPC, made up mainly of Brant farmers, community members and other strategic interests, is in the middle of its equity drive aimed at raising up to $43 million from area interests.

When finished, IGPC's plant will be the largest in Ontario. It will use about
12 million bushels of corn a year — six per cent of Ontario's average annual corn production — to process about 125 million litres of ethanol, 96,000 tonnes of dried distillers grains for the livestock feed market and about 60,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide.