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Planning commission approves special use permit for Delano biochar facility
Summary
Tulare County planning commissioners approved a special use permit and CEQA exemption for a biochar facility proposed near Delano, a project proponent said would process almond shells into biochar and renewable energy and pursue carbon removal certificates.
The Tulare County Planning Commission voted to conditionally approve Special Use Permit PSP25-033 and a CEQA categorical exemption for a proposed biochar facility near Delano, accepting staff findings that the project fits a cogeneration exemption. The motion passed 6-1.
Staff said the facility would occupy about five acres of a roughly 39.91-acre parcel at 2115 Road 144, west of Road 144 and about 2 miles north of County Line Road. Emily Gage, project processor with the Tulare County Resource Management Agency, told commissioners the proposal calls for a roughly 20,000-square-foot metal building, multiple canopies and support structures and three continuous slow‑pyrolysis reactors to manufacture biochar from almond shell and…
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