A Calgary company is looking at Crown land near Summit Lake as a possible location for a plant to make a widely used ingredient in commercial fertilizers.
Channel West Partners Inc. (CWP) has applied to the provincial government for permission to carry out a geotechnical analysis on a 457-hectare site about 30 kilometres north of Prince George city limits to see if it can support the tanks and buildings for a facility to make urea.
Natural gas is a primary raw material in making the product and the company's vice president of marketing, Ilene Schmaltz, said that fits well with CWP's mandate to develop projects that utilize excess natural gas in Western Canada.
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