[CPEO-BIF] Oil recycling, Canton, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Recycling oil: Canton lands 'green' jobs at former brownfield site

BY G. PATRICK KELLEY
Canton Repository (OH)
October 12, 2008

CANTON Hydrodec is starting off green and hoping to make the world a 
greener place. The British-based company created more than 30 
environmentally friendly jobs here when it began to operate an oil 
reprocessing plant on a reclaimed brownfield site.

Specifically, Hydrodec processes oil used to insulate and cool electric 
transformers so it can be used again and again. The electric power 
industry is huge and requires large and small transformers to switch the 
power from low to high voltage for transmission over long distances and 
back again, said Hydrodec President John Cowan.

Over time - about 10 years - the oil degrades. Past practice has been to 
discard the oil and burn it for fuel. Then it's replaced with new oil, a 
large portion of which is imported, Cowan said. Using Hydrodec's 
recycled oil also stabilizes the price because it's not determined by 
crude oil commodity fluctuations, he said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=435827&Category=5&subCategoryID=

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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