Here is an interesting article about this place: https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2021/the-curious-case-of-red-rock-biofuels/
THE CURIOUS CASE OF RED ROCK BIOFUELS
For a variety of reasons, not the least of which are the technological limitations, the promise of making supposedly low carbon renewable fuels from woody biomass has been a hard to attain objective for the aviation biofuels sector.
A curious case study in efforts to reach this aviation biofuels objective is that of Red Rock Biofuels. A company that was founded in 2011, and the owner of the still as yet incomplete and unoperational bioenergy refinery of the same name in Lakeview, Oregon, Red Rock Biofuels has been an active player in the promotion of what aviation industry lobbyists and policy specialists call Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF in industry vernacular).
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This is curious, is it correct? Who lost out on the deal?
https://www.greendiamond.com/news/pdf/Oregonlive%20Biofuel%20Article_ORO.pdf
The project got a major boost in January when Oregon Gov. Kate Brown approved $245 million in bonds for Red Rock Biofuels. With the state’s backing, the project owners get tax exempt status on that portion of their borrowing, and lower interest costs. But taxpayers are not on the hook if the project goes belly up.
“There’s zero risk to the state,” said Laura Lockwood-McCall, director the Treasury Department’s Debt Management Division.