The majority of plants now being built/planned are engineered and owned by multi-national corporations out of Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and Spain [Foreign firms with ties to Australia, India and Israel also are buying into Iowa]
Most construction crews are out-of-state contractors employing immigrant laborers.
Big Oil doesn't just have its finger in the biofuels pie, but its whole fist.
NFU's recent Ag Market Concentration study revealed that 4 main beef packers control 83.5% of the total market; 4 pork packers control 66% of that market; 4 top poultry companies have 53% of that market.
http://www.cfra.org/node/316
When the talk turns to the positives about building an ethanol plant in Webster County, one of the common refrains heard is: "Jobs, jobs, jobs."
For whom, one might ask? As the story above points out, the jobs are for "out-of-state contractors employing immigrant laborers."
After the plant is built, one study showed that 78% of the jobs at the operating ethanol plants went to college graduates with at least fours years of advanced schooling; the other 22% were menial jobs, liable to be filled by whomever was willing to work for the lowest wages.
But we all know what the main "JOB" will be for residents of Webster County and the Ozarks will be: That JOB will be breathing the toxic air and finding ways to drink the polluted water in the wells affected by the wastewater coming from that ethanol plant.
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You write very well.
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