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Article: Lakehead U biorefining for a better future: new $6 million research project to examine Boreal Forest.(FORESTRY)(Lakehead University)
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- Northern Ontario Business
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- November 1, 2008
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From new sources of fuel to innovative medical applications, the Boreal Forest may yet hold many secrets for Northern Ontario, secrets which Australian biochemist Dr. Robert Dekker is looking to uncover.
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As the founding director of Lakehead University's newly minted Biorefining Research Initiative (BRI), Dekker is heading up an ambitious project to take a closer look at the forest's feedstock for various value-added applications.
"The Boreal Forest is a unique place in the world to study the microbial species that live in harmony with the plants and the soil," says Dekker.
"I'm quite certain there will be ...