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Article: Ammonia plant proposed: Richland company says Waterville is the ideal location.
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- Wenatchee Business Journal
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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Waterville has a well that's too contaminated with nitrates to be used for public consumption. Douglas County sells power cheap. And the area is surrounded by wheat fields.
To Doug McKinley that makes Waterville an ideal location for a pilot anhydrous ammonia plant his company Nhthree wants to build.
Nhthree, based in Richland, has a patented process that combines air, electricity and water to form anhydrous ammonia. The process produces oxygen gas, which it could sell, and ammonia. This year farmers across the United States paid between $600 and $1,050 a ton for ammonia-based fertilizer. The later in the year, the higher the cost.
A couple ...