ETHANOL FACTORY ON SCHEDULE

Rogersville ethanol plant still moving forward, company says By Matt Wagner
Springfield Business Journal Staff 7/16/2007

A Mount Vernon company’s plans to build a corn-based ethanol plant near Rogersville are still moving forward, according to a company official.
More than two months have passed since a judge ruled that Gulfstream Bioflex Energy LLC could proceed with the $185 million plant despite objections from property owners who sued the company over concerns about their groundwater supply.
But GBE’s lead attorney, Bryan Wade of Husch & Eppenberger LLC, said his client still intends to build the plant on 252 acres east of Rogersville. Wade said he recently filed a response to post-trial motions filed by the plant opponents’ attorney, Bill McDonald of McDonald, Hosmer, King & Royce PC.
“We would certainly like to know what the court’s feeling is on it before any significant activity occurs, but as far as I know, everything’s a go,” Wade said.

GBE Vice President Charles Luna would neither discuss the impending sale nor the plant’s construction timeline. He did, however, say that the company expects to have an approved air permit from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources no later than Sept. 30.

When asked whether other Missouri cities have attempted to woo GBE, Luna said that Seymour – several miles east of the existing site – previously expressed interest. The Rogersville site, however, remains GBE’s top pick for a plant, he said.

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Webster County's Ethanol Factory looks to be on schedule. With the next round in court all but a done deal for the ethanol factory and DNR getting ready to issue an approved air permit for that TOXIC TERROR, construction should be taking place on the ethanol factory no later than by the end of this year.

Unless people in Webster County and the Ozarks band together to fight this monstrosity, 2007 could be known as the last year in which Webster County folks enjoyed breathing air free of pollutants.

2007 will also be remembered as the last year in which Ozark Aquifer water was free of ethanol factory pollutants.

Better plan for the future by investing in a large truck with a water tank. Because once our drinking water dries up from feeding the insatiable quench of this ethanol factory, hauling water to our homes will be a weekly occurence in the Ozarks.

As for the ethanol factory claims that it will create more than $3 million annually in property tax revenue, one has to figure in the DECREASE that will come from the devaluation of the property tax value of the houses near the ethanol factory, which will offset the ethanol factory figures.

And write off any future growth for that part of Webster County. Who would want to buy a house or piece of property near a TOXIC TERROR?