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Ontario is within 200 kilometres of Lambton
County. We also have the ability to import bio-
mass from Michigan,” said Mallay.
Bio companies such as BioAmber, Woodland
Biofuels, KmX, and GreenCore Composites
have chosen Sarnia-Lambton for their manu-
facturing or pilot plants because of the syner-
gies offered by the Sarnia Lambton Biohybrid
Chemistry Sector. Methes Energies built a
biodiesel plant, and Enbridge has the largest
ethanol plant in Canada in this region. Sarnia
Lambton is also looking into sustainable repur-
posing of assets and infrastructure that can be
updated to produce cleaner energy through
greener processes such as its 2500 megawatt
coal-fired plant that it had to close after the
province closed all such plants years ago, how-
ever it is an asset that can be repurposed.
The region has no shortage of infrastructure
to accommodate the green chemistry and en-
ergy industry. The area has a 540-megawatt
plant owned by TransAlta Corporation, two
large combined-cycle plants of about 500-
1000 megawatts, another 300 megawatt plant
that is currently under construction, and an
80-megawatt solar farm located on approxi-
mately 405 hectares. It also has the Dawn Stor-
age Complex, which is the largest natural gas
facility in Canada of over 150 billion cubic feet,
and one of the fastest-growing storage hubs
in North America. It can deliver up to two bil-
lion cubic feet a day to storage and transporta-
tion customers. The area also is situated in a
geographically favorable position with a lot of
tie-ins to the U.S. pipeline availability and elec-
trical grid, and water from the St. Clair River
drawing from Lake Huron.
Innovations also abound in the region from
companies in new energy technologies such
as those building instrument enclosures, high
voltage power systems, a bio-based fuel cell,
energy vortex and storage systems. Another
company is looking at building a new polysili-
“Lambton County council and the community have showed
commitment to a long-term strategy toward bio-based chemistry and
repurposing the industrial infrastructure here,” said George Mallay.
