Been some news locally on the Ethanol Plant. I would like to share it with you guys, if or not you haven't heard it yet. There are 2 related stories here. Both are from Rnews.
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Ethanol Plant Opens Jobs for Many
by
Seth Vorhees
Photo by R News Staff
Published
May 31, 2007
Residents call it the best thing to hit Orleans County in years.
It's a new ethanol plant that's putting a lot of people to work. But
not everyone's happy.
Plant members of the UA Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 22 said the
majority of the work on the plant is being done by out-of-staters. One
count put the number of vehicles at the site with out-of-state plates
at more than 20.
"There's many workers out of work in a 100 mile radius collecting New
York state unemployment that could be working on this site, and these
people are working on this site and sending their money back home and
they're being subsidized by New York state," David Cronkhite, of
Plumbers Local No. 22 said.
Western New York Energy responded in a statement: "...the majority of
the 180 workers on site at the plant are local workers. However, the
specialized nature of ethanol plant construction does sometimes
require our builder to use workers from outside the area."
Western New York Energy hired Fagen, Inc. to build the plant. The
Minnesota based company has built nearly half the ethanol plants in
the U.S. Some of its employees have come under fire recently; three
were arrested in March for operating a small meth lab in Medina. Two
others registered with the local police department as sex offenders.
The $90 million plant is being built in Shelby, Orleans County. About
a third of the money will come from state and federal grants.
kmv
Original Source:
http://rnews.com/story_2004.cfm?story_t ... 8&id=49662
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Orleans Ethanol Plant Awarded Grant
by Sarah Freligh
Photo by Helen Moore
Published Jul 09, 2007
The ethanol plant now being built in Orleans County is a step closer to being finished.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded the project a grant of almost $200,000. The money will allow the town of Shelby to improve a stretch of road near the new plant. Plans include widening the road to ease any potential traffic congestion around the plant.
The plant is projected to produce 55 million gallons of fuel-grade ethanol. The ethanol will be sold to oil companies; they will then sell it across the country as an ethanol-fuel blend.
There is still no word yet on when ethanol-based fuel will be widely available in the Rochester area.
“There's no one cure all for our energy costs; we need to continue exploring for domestic oil and gas, we need to look at conservation increasing standards to get more miles per gallons of our vehicles,” Congressman Tom Reynolds, (R, NY) said.
The Albany area has the first private gas station selling ethanol- based fuel. Reynolds said lab tests are now underway on ethanol- blend fuels to help make them more available.
kmv/ll
Original Source:
http://rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?ID=5096 ... ategory=10
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