A new company has filed for approval to build a plant in the Sussex area that would make natural gas and fertilizer out of farm and fish waste.
Bio Voltex, formed in 2024, hosted a public meeting this week at the Penobsquis Community Centre, attended by 60 to 70 people, according to organizer estimates.
Scott Walton, Bio Voltex CEO, said he was really happy with the reception.
Walton is from Saint John and one of three partners in the company, which has an office in Fredericton.
The meeting in Penobsquis took place a few weeks after the company filed for an environmental impact assessment for its plans to bring in chicken and dairy manure from nearby farms and fish products from around the province and put them into a big concrete digester tank to decompose and produce gas.
Impurities would then be removed from the gas, and it would be injected into a pipeline, said Walton.
The plant would produce about 180,000 gigajoules of natural gas and 100,000 tonnes of fertilizer a year, he said.
How many houses that could power depends on the generating station technology, but Walton said, if burned, it would be enough to heat a few thousand homes.
It would be sold to a single customer for a period of 20 years, he said.
Walton didn’t name the buyer and said an agreement could only be finalized after environmental impact approval,
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