Fepam, the environmental protection agency in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, issued on Wednesday the environmental licence for a 50-MW biomass project.  The facility will be built on a 112,000-sq-m area in the municipality of Pinheiro Machado at a total cost of BRL 1 billion (USD 255.5m/EUR 219.2m). It is owned by local company Pellco Brasil and in the first phase, it intends to produce 900 thousand tons of peletts per year (the project also provides for another two phases, which will eventually produce 1.8 million tons ...