What does Project 60 mean?

How Salmon Idaho Fits the Meaning.

Ideas from Calvin Leman and Willie Mundy

Salmon Business and Innovation Center

October 7, 2009

Salmon, Idaho

§  Creating a climate in which our companies-large and small-can grow and contribute to sustainable communities

• Companies that make fuel from a feed-stock that farmers in their town produce can make a fuel that is sustainable and solves the energy, environment, and worker-productivity problems of the state and of the nation.

§  Encouraging local self-determination and enabling Idahoans to become the architects of their own destiny

• Self-determination for these communities follows from people having a job where they have control.  Producing local fuel to burn in local cars creates self-determination.

§  Empowering Idahoans to compete in the global marketplace

• Idahoans in Salmon and in other communities will be able to sell this idea and this equipment nationally and world-wide.

§  Exporting our goods, not our people

• People will stay where they have good jobs.  The trickle-down effect of the replacement of the $10.5 million each year for gasoline will create 182 jobs.  A community of 8000, who makes their own fuel, will add $28,955,050 to the local economy, $5,149,500 to household income, and 182 jobs in the town. 

§  Providing a solid foundation for Idaho's families through education, connected communities, and career opportunities

• The trickle-down and the profit from locally produced fuel will help pay for schools and community projects.  It will help make loans to local businesses.

§  Providing the access and resources our young people need to realize their potential

• Young people will be attracted to these state-of-the-art fuel production facilities. Young people will gain skills in science, engineering, and business.  This will enable them to improve the facility and the process.

http://commerce.idaho.gov/news/2009/09/gov.-otter-to-give-breakfast-presentation-building-our-economy-the-idaho-way.aspx

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