President appointed
The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute has appointed Kathleen Sullivan president, effective Jan. 21.
She will succeed Yvan Jacques, who has served as president since the institute was established in February 2004.
Sullivan is now general manager of the Animal Nutrition Association of Canada, where she represents manufacturers of livestock feed and their suppliers.
Previous positions include senior policy adviser in education with Ontario’s cabinet office, senior policy adviser for Ontario’s education minister, and vice-president of government affairs with the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association.
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Sullivan holds degrees in commerce and law. Much of her work at the institute will focus on rural revitalization, the relationship between population health and agriculture and the bio-economy.
The Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute is a nonprofit corporation. Its goal is to help shape Canadian agriculture policy and ensure that the sector remains a leading force in the global marketplace.
Bioenergy funding
Alberta has approved more than $500,000 in provincial grants for three bio-energy projects.
The projects, located in Red Deer, Ponoka and Bentley, will explore the business potential for new facilities and expand the capacity of current ones.
Kingdom Farm Inc. of Bentley will use the funding to review the potential of applying bio-gas technology to large scale Alberta hog operations.
Permolex in Red Deer will expand its ethanol storage capacity and distribution infrastructure.
A feasibility study will also examine the potential of increasing plant capacity by up to 300 percent at the current site.
Highmark Renewables Research LP will use grant funding to conduct a bio-gas feasibility study on a large scale dairy operation near Ponoka. The proposed project will use bio-gas digester technology to handle liquid dairy manure.
All three of the grants were allocated through the biorefining commercialization and market development and bio-energy infrastructure development programs.
