Inevitable Ethanol
Up & Coming Magazine:
In spite of the efforts by a strong-willed few and the vocal opposition of many it would seem that the E85 Corp. is not to be deterred.
They are determined to have a go at the ethanol business and our community is to be their training ground. For the most part our citizens quite logically oppose this assault on our community’s environment. An ethanol plant offers too little. Forty jobs more or less and a small addition to the county tax collections do not justify the real and perceived risks.
The preferences of the residential property owners within a mile or two were and continue to be ignored by ethanol plant proponents. Dr. Franklin Clark sold an option to E85 without concerns about how an ethanol plant would negatively affect residential property values or life styles in the nearby communities. Clark now is fully aware of the unhappiness that exists with Kings Grant and Greystone Farms homeowners, but he persists in pushing the proposed E85 facility. In actuality, Clark really only wants to sell his land and has admitted as much. The Cumberland County Business Council (CCBC) wooed E85 and even offered them $875,000 of taxpayer’s money to please, please select Cumberland County for your nasty business. No explanation has yet been submitted by the CCBC as to why they did this since the competing county, Richmond, has absolutely denied offering any incentive money whatsoever. The unrelenting rumor is that the $875,000 was to be applied to the asked for $4,000,000 purchase price of the land.
The unhappiness relating to the E85 plant has not yet really developed. Once the plant has been completed and is in full operation the adverse effects of a 100-million-gallon-per-year operation will be understood. E85 executive Mark Dassel’s promises of “latest and best technology” may or may not be delivered, but the smell, the dangerous chemical storage, the daily truck traffic and the air pollution will be. Then there will be no solution to the problem. We as a community will just have to live with it. Full article.
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