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The Sanford Herald SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2010
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SANFORD CLEAN-UP
Spill dumped 530 gallons of used oil Emergency crews wrapped up clean-up Friday; spill made it to creek bed near Carthage, Sunset streets By BILLY LIGGETT bliggett@sanfordherald.com
SANFORD — On the same day the Gulf Coast celebrated the capping of an epic 85-day leak, local emergency crews were dealing with their own (small scale) oil spill near downtown Sanford. A drum containing about 530 gallons of thick, black used
oil was released into the streets and creek behind Rocky’s Boxing, located at 319 Wicker Street, late Wednesday. Lee County Emergency Management teamed up with Noble Oil Services Thursday to begin the clean-up process and by Friday, they announced the spill was contained. The oil had made it to a creek bed on Sunset Drive in Sanford’s Rosemount McIver
Historic District, according to Emergency Management Director Shane Seagroves. “It made it down to about a block before you get to Hillcrest Drive,” Seagrove said Friday. “They’re still cleaning it up ... we’ve got trucks pumping it and we’re using the same type of oil booms they used in the
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Jeff Venable (left), Peter Hayes (middle) and Don Quinn (right), with Noble Oil Service, clean up an oil spill using oil absorbent booms.
Highway Patrol leader resigns
BIOFUELS
By MIKE BAKER Associated Press Writer
WESLEY BEESON / The Sanford Herald
Leif Forer talks about the oil storage tanks at Piedmont Biofuels, where oil from kitchen grease to vegetable oil are stored and used during the conversion from oils to biodiesel on Friday afternoon
From grease to green First-of-its-kind unit uses enzymes to produce high-quality biodiesel By ALEXA MILAN amilan@sanfordherald.com
PITTSBORO — It took a few tries to completely cut through the large purple ribbon with a huge pair of scissors, but with one final snip, Piedmont Biofuels unveiled its latest renewable fuel production technology on Friday. The Enzymatic Biodiesel pilot unit uses enzymes to produce high-quality biodiesel from low-quality grease. The first of its kind in the United States, Piedmont Biofuels developed the pilot unit with the help of the Chatham County Economic Development Corporation, the Biofuels Center of North
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Carolina and Novozymes, an international developer of enzyme technology. “(The pilot unit) is going to demonstrate the enzyme technology we’ve developed in the lab on a larger scale,” said Greg Austic, a researcher at Piedmont Biofuels. The traditional process of biofuel production uses a fat or oil, a type of alcohol and a catalyst. The new enzymatic process replaces the traditional catalyst with enzymes, resulting in a decrease in waste, an increase in output and a purer product. The enzyme technology also makes the production process more
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HAPPENING TODAY n The Rhythm at the Pavilion free concert series presents Al Batten and the Blue Grass Reunion at The North Carolina Veterans Memorial, located at 210 S. Main St., Broadway. Concert begins at 7 p.m. Bring your chair or blanket. CALENDAR, PAGE 2A
RALEIGH — The commander of North Carolina’s Highway Patrol resigned Friday in the wake of a long series of trooper misconduct matters that have tarnished the force’s reputation. Gov. Beverly Perdue said she had a brief conversation with Col. Randy Glover on Friday morning and accepted Glover his resignation. She did not elaborate on why he stepped down from the position he took less than a year ago. Chrissy
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QUICKREAD TECHNOLOGY
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Per Munk Nielsen (from left), Hans Christen Holm, S. Steven Burke, Diane Reed, Rachel Burton and Greg Austic cut a ribbon to open the unit.
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Apple Inc. will give free protective cases to buyers of its latest iPhone to prevent reception problems that occur when people cover a certain spot on the phone with a bare hand Page 10A
INDEX
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OBITUARIES
D.G. MARTIN
Sanford: Ruth Johnson, 84; Adrienne Lawrence Aberdeen: Alberta Phifer, 91 Southport: Anne Durkee, 85
The days of human sacrifice aren’t so far in the past, especially in politics
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