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The Darker Side Of Ethanol
By Mr Ethanol | August 28, 2007
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As plans pop up for biofuel plants, neighbors argue they aren’t so green.
Indianapolis Star:
In rural eastern Indiana, where corn-seed markers dot the roadside, a number of homemade white signs with electric-red letters have started popping up offering another message: “No Ethanol.”
The signs can be found along a small Delaware County road, easily missed if you blink while driving on Ind. 3 to the bucolic community of Shideler, population 3,000, eight miles north of Muncie.
There, homeowners such as Keith and Michelle Beaty say they face the darker side of the renewable fuel ethanol, one that threatens to upend the kind of life that drew them to their home of 10 years.
Concerned about pollution, traffic and, ultimately, declining property values, the Beatys and their neighbors have filed a lawsuit to try to block construction of an ethanol plant in Shideler.
The 100-acre plant would loom over the countryside. Trucks would enter and leave 24 hours a day. Smoke rising from a stack would carry chemicals that pollute the air even as the plant produces a cleaner-burning alternative to gasoline.
“If they build it, I won’t live here,” said Keith Beaty, 40, twisting a line from the movie “Field of Dreams.”
Photo: Kelly Wilkinson / The Star.
Topics: Ethanol, Health, Negatives |
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