A Cybercast News Service analysis of EPA records found 73 biorefineries - more than 60 percent of those operating - were cited by state or federal agencies for environmental violations in the last three years. The vast majority involve state or federal clean air laws.
"They've brought the enforcement actions against a number of ethanol companies and refineries for essentially sidestepping the law," said Frank O'Donnell, president of the non-partisan Clean Air Watch. "Ethanol refineries have the potential to pollute quite a bit."
Fordland, Mo., bed and breakfast owner Larry Alberty agreed. He and his rural neighbors are fighting a proposed ethanol plant in nearby Rogersville.
They fear the plant's proposed 12-acre wastewater holding pond will seep into groundwater - the plant will be built on top of a major aquifer - and that the project will harm tourism in the area with its smokestacks and noise.
"Eleven million people visit this area [each year]," Alberty said. "People aren't going to want to come to the bed and breakfast and hear the noise and the light pollution ... it has an impact there and we're very concerned about it."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200706/NAT20070613a.html
Another day and another horror story about what the Webster County ethanol plant will contribute to the Ozarks. This contribution is anything but positive. A partial list of the horrors in store for both Webster County and the Ozarks reads like a Stephen King novel: Polluted water; toxic chemcials released into the air and a depleted Ozarks Aquifer.
ALL of these horrors will be subsidized by our tax dollars. We will be paying for this "TOXIC TERROR" to inhabit and stalk the Ozarks, spewing its poisons all around; into our drinking water and on the ground.
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