Ethanol fuel terminals expand in Rhode Island, Maine

In Rhode Island, Motiva Enterprises opened a rail yard in Providence, that can receive as much as 15,000 Mgy of ethanol.  In Maine, Canadian National Railway opened a 150-acre biofuels terminal in Auburn, Maine that can move up to moving 450 gallons of ethanol per minute.

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