Iogen Corp. on Wednesday said it has suspended its operations in Idaho.
For the last two years, Iogen had leaned toward building a cellulosic ethanol facility near Shelley, near where farmers already are under contract to provide the wheat and barley straw, corn leaves and stalks, and switch grass used to produce ethanol.
A U.S. Department of Energy spending package included loan guarantees and an $80 million grant for the project, estimated in 2006 to cost up to $350 million.
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