CHICKENS STILL MISSING; FOX NOWHERE TO BE FOUND

The Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co. runs from approx. 9PM until 6AM. Talk about increased noise! Mr. Gardner that owes this railroad talks about saving these small rural towns by building ethanol plants and of course having his railroad ship in the corn and ship out the ethanol. I see a lot of corn coming into this plant by rail. It makes me stop and think, where is this corn from? I know the local farmers in this community cannot afford to ship by rail.

The Badger State Ethanol Plant started operation in October 2002; I have yet to see any benefit in having this plant in our town.

Lower property taxes-NOT!

Lower sales tax-NOT!

Increased revenue for our farmers-NOT!!!

Increased traffic on our streets-YES!!!

Increased noise pollution-YES!!!!

Increased air pollution-YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Loss of good neighbors-YES!!!!

Loss of free time to spend in my backyard-YES!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.c4aqe.org/ODORS/resident_testimony.htm

These horror stories are from the real life experiences of people who are living close to operating ethanol plants; one in Illinois and one in Wisconsin. Both of these real life horror stories involve the plants emitting a tremendous amount of various types of air pollutants. The amount of air pollutants that can be LEGALLY discharged from ethanol plants was recently raised from 100 tons to 250 tons per year. And that's the LEGAL amount. Since these plants, as the testimony so succinctly states, hire the emission test contractor, it stands to reason that the emissons test contractor isn't going to "rock the boat" too much, it might endanger their paycheck.

Another fact to keep in mind is that not only will the airborne pollutants immediately and negatively impact the local residents who are forced to breathe contaminated air, those pollutants will eventually drift down to the ground. These pollutants will start seeping into the ground and leeching into the water table, eventually finding their way into the Ozarks Aquifer.

Polluted drinking water, toxic air and a depleted Ozarks Aquifer. These are some of the "benefits" that the FOX and and his fellow cohorts are bringing to both Webster County and the Ozarks with their ethanol plant.