Click above to hear Sault MP Bryan Hayes announce 160 thousand dollars in funding for BioForest Technologies.

Sault MP Bryan Hayes announced 160 thousand dollars in funding for BioForest Techonologies on Monday. The money will be instrumental in helping the local company in research related to managing insect pests like the Emerald Ash Borer affecting area trees. Joe Meating is the President of BioForest Technologies. He says the funding is critical for the work BioForest does…

Past federal benefits for BioForest include helping the company develop the TreeAzin insecticide and the EcoJet System. The 160 thousand dollars in funding is for this year — Meating talks about what the funding will go towards and what it will be used for…

Meating says the work will also involve Algoma University — a relationship scheduled to last for the next five to seven years…

The money comes from the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program.