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December 31, 2008

Is cow poop Idaho's fuel of the future?

  • Energy czar Paul Kjellander is pushing a bill that would offer incentives to build pipelines that link dairies' manure digesters to central refineries that produce natural gas.
    • By JOHN MILLER
    Associated Press Writer

    BOISE, Idaho — That odor wafting from 550,000 cows that make up Idaho's growing dairy herd smells like energy independence and economic development to state energy czar Paul Kjellander.

    Idaho is now America's No. 3 milk producer, trailing California and Wisconsin. That also means it's cow pie central.


     
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