A 1.5 million-gallon-capacity cellulosic ethanol plant is under construction in Westbury, Canada, and will be the first ever industrial scale cellulosic ethanol plant in the country. The plant will use “creosited urban wood (end-of-lifecycle power poles)” and municipal solid waste as feedstocks, using a thermochemical route of production. The Enerkem website (URL above) describes the steps of the production technology as follows: (1) feedstock pretreatment and feeding (feedstock is sorted, shredded and dried), (2) gasification (feedstock is heated to produce synthesis gas), (3) syngas conditioning (syngas is cleaned), and finally, (4) syngas conversion into alcohols..