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Questions
about the proposed Penn-Mar Ethanol (PME)
and ethanol distilleries generally
Evacuation map associated with Penn-Mar Ethanol
LLC's proposed distillery
(Click)
Question # 34
Is it even possible for Penn-Mar
Ethanol's distillery to operate using expensive natural gas as a
power source?
Question # 33
Would Penn-Mar attempt to use coal as a
source of energy to power its distillery process?
Question # 32
Does Charlie Myers, the new LIDA Board Chairman
and Letterkenny Township Supervisor receive farm
subsidies similar to the Penn-Mar Farmer Owners?
(Click to see Penn-Mar
Farmer/Owner subsidy information)
"Charles H Myers received payments totaling
$132,235.03 from 1995 through 2004"
(Click to see Charlie Myers subsidy payments)
Question # 31
Does Charlie Myers (the new LIDA
Board Chairman and Letterkenny Township
Supervisor) have a conflict of interest
in regard to the Penn-Mar Ethanol land sale and
distillery??
Did he tell people that he would just drive his
dump truck over to the Penn-Mar Ethanol
distillery and load it up his truck with DDGS
(Dried Distillers Grains and
Solubles) for his cows?
(paraphrased)
Question # 30
Does the Army agree with John Van Horn's
recommendation:
"I would still recommend this as a logical
location for an ethanol facility."?
"The deputy commander of Letterkenny Army
Depot testified Monday for the first time that he is concerned about
potential problems of a proposed ethanol plant...."
"...One of my greater concerns is the growth and
investment in a facility the Army would be willing to make (in our
facility)," he said. "Would decision-makers in D.C. invest money
into the depot if it had an ethanol plant nearby? Probably
not...." from
Army leader questions plant
safety By Leah Farr, September 20,
2005
(Click to read article)
Question # 29
How much has Greene Township already
spent on Penn-Mar Ethanol? How much will
they spend and how much is that per township
resident?
After
3 years of efforts, could Penn-Mar Ethanol LLC not afford to pay
the $20,000 deposit due per the Agreement of Sale on October 20,
2005?
Question # 27
Does Penn-Mar have the funds to pay the $2.4 million
for the land and to construct an $85 million ethanol distillery?
Letterkenny Industrial Development Authority (LIDA) management
says the deadline of October 20, 2005 for Penn-Mar Ethanol LLC
to make an additional $20,000 deposit to continue their
Agreement of Sale review period has been
extend to April 2006. Why was
this deadline for payment extended from October 20, 2005 to
April 2006?
Did the LIDA Board vote to grant the extension?
Question # 28 Will the new
Franklin County prison be a safe environment for the prisoners,
guards, staff, police officers, Attorneys, counselors, and
visitors if the Penn-Mar Ethanol distillery is built within a
few hundred feet?
#26.
Why was the November 7, 2005 Letterkenny
Industrial Development Board Meeting (LIDA)
cancelled?
Click to read about the Penn-Mar Ethanol, LLC -
LIDA Agreement of Sale.
#21. Homeland
Security Issues Is
it safe to build an ethanol distillery close to an Army
ammunition operations area, the Army's military vehicle mission
vital to the Iraq War (up-armoring Humvees), Patriot Missile
radar testing area, next to the Army's helipad, and to share the
same railroad tracks?
#20. Is
it safe to build an ethanol distillery at the end of the
take-off path of the local municipal airport? Would the
airport be able to expand in the future? extend it's
runway?
#19. Do some
Penn-Mar Farmer/Owners/Founders already get large farm subsidies from the
Federal Government? Click on the following
links to the Environmental Working Groups Farm Subsidy Database:
The
Founders of Penn-Mar Ethanol LLC (formed after a study funded
by the Agricultural Economic Development Initiative - REDDI
South-Central PA (Click
to read more about REDDI):
According to the
Environmental Working Group's "Farm Subsidy Database," from 1995
through 2004:
J. Daniel Wolf's Wolf Farms Inc.
was given $738,021.29
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=001186013
Donald E. Lippy's Lippy Bros Inc.
was given $1,735,879.49
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=008403444
David L. Rose's Clear Meadow Farm
was given $1,078,367.85
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=011202077
Daryl L. Alger was given
$578,601.96
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=000878538
James E. Eisenhour Jr. was given
$644,029.44 through 2004
(Click to see LIDA
Agreement of Sale Information)
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=000865134
Charles R. Mielke's Trenton Mill
Farms Inc. was given $866,408.07
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=008409181
Eric Wolgemuth's Wolgemuth Bros.
LLC was given $372,958.24
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=001194805
Brian A. Utz was given
$125,201.62
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=000734059
Jay L. Arentz was given
$31,480.39
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=000662656
Nathan E. Grove was given
$19,475.00
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=000534541
Marlyn G. Flaharty was given $1,015.00
http://www.ewg.org/farm/persondetail.php?custnumber=011058667
"...the
cumulative federal ethanol subsidy was $11 billion through 2000,
according to government auditors, and about $1.8 billion last
year, according to Monte Shaw, spokesman for the Renewable Fuels
Association, the ethanol lobby.
Gasoline marketers get a tax credit of 51 cents for every gallon
of ethanol they add to their blends. The subsidy and a similar
predecessor are credited with keeping U.S. ethanol industry
alive and, according to critics, wasting billions of taxpayer
dollars...."
That
cheaper E85 ethanol is a myth in Maryland by
Jay Hancock baltimoresun.com May 4, 2005
Will
the proposed Penn-Mar Ethanol plant benefit local farmers?
(click
here)
#18 Distillers Dried Grains and Solubles (DDGS) are a
by-product of ethanol production and "rot" quickly
(after a couple of days). What would Penn-Mar do with all
the DDGS that was not sold? (194,000 tons per year)
Would it be flushed into the CVBP sewage plant or hauled off to
the local landfill?
#17 Is the
present Franklin County Prison location less
dangerous than one next to an ethanol
distillery/storage facility operating 24 hours,
7 days a week, 365 days of the year?
(click
to see map)
#14.
How close are the
Chambersburg Area School District land, Franklin County Prison land,
and the Golf Course to the proposed ethanol distillery site?
(click
for map)
Franklin County Prison info (Click)
Contact
the ACLU about the Prison location.
#13 - More info Who knew Penn-Mar Ethanol was planning to
buy land and build an ethanol plant at Cumberland Valley
Business Park and when did they know it? (click
for more info)
#12
How would 99 large trucks get from Route 81 to Penn-Mar's ethanol plant each day?
click
here
#11.
Will the proposed Penn-Mar Ethanol plant benefit
local farmers? click
here
#10.
Is ethanol a viable gasoline additive or fuel source?
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UC
scientist says ethanol uses more energy than it makes--A lot
of fossil fuels go into producing the gas substitute
(Click
to read article) by
Elizabeth Svoboda, Monday June
27, 2005
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Taxpayers
For Common Sense Article. Ethanol
Plants exist only because of massive government
subsidies. They offer no cost or environmental benefits
that would sustain the plants.
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Cornell
University Ag Department Study. It
costs 1 1/2 to 2 times more to make ethanol from corn as to
make gasoline. "The growers and processors can't
afford to burn ethanol to make ethanol." U.S. drivers
couldn't afford it, either, if it weren't for their tax
dollars paying for government subsidies to artificially lower
ethanol prices.
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The
CATO Institute position*. Ethanol
production exists only because of "lavish"
government subsidies to agribusiness, which allow large farm
businesses to profit by selling a product that in not
economically sustainable.
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The Heritage Foundation
position*. Ethanol
requires more fuel than it produces. Ethanol subsidies
are "shortsighted and irresponsible"... "increasing
costs to families and businesses"
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Washington
Post Editorial. The
government "shouldn't
pour billions in taxpayers' cash into products that will never
be remotely viable."
Ethanol takes as much oil energy to make as it provides.
There are no environmental benefits that outweigh the
environmental problems with ethanol.
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The
Agribusiness Council Ethanol
lowers gas mileage, damages cars, deflates the price of corn,
pollutes the air, uses enormous amounts of water and requires
more energy to produce than it saves.
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Thermodynamics
of the Corn-Ethanol Biofuel Cycle,
Patzek, UC Berkeley, 3-12-05. More fossil energy
is used to produce ethanol from corn than the
ethanol’s energy value. Growing corn for fuel depletes
and can eventually destroy soil value.
Production of ethanol from plants is unsustainable. Only
large government subsidies, courtesy of the taxpayers, support
ethanol. (Click
here for full study)
*
While we do not necessarily agree with the all positions of the
Heritage Foundation or The CATO Institute, we do agree with
their referenced position on the ethanol subsidies and the
unacceptably high cost of fuel from corn.
The
ethanol scam: Big money & politics Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review, Friday, March 11, 2005
"All
factors considered, it takes 1.3 gallons of petroleum to produce
1 gallon of ethanol. As such, ethanol production increases
dependence on foreign oil."
(Click
for entire article - .PDF)
ADM Stock Sinks After Ratings Downgrade
Associated
Press April 6,2005
"Archer
Daniels Midland Co. stock dropped Wednesday after an analyst
warned the ethanol business faced industry overcapacity."......"The
primary issue driving our downward revision is that the
expansion in the ethanol industry exceeds demand."
(Click
for entire article)
Click
for more on the Economics of Ethanol
#9.
Do ethanol distilleries send
malodors into the community?
Click on article
title to read.
"...Here are the facts about where ethanol
plants work. Lexington, Neb., is a town of about 10,000 in the
nation’s corn belt. Lots of corn and cattle — a thoroughly
agricultural economy. A Tyson’s beef processing plant employing
2,500 people, feedlots for hundreds of head of cattle, and a
local rendering plant share the air with the Cornhusker Energy
ethanol plant. The cattle provide a ready market for the primary
byproduct of an ethanol plant-grain distillate. It’s the corn
mash left over after the starch needed to make ethanol has been
removed, and must be moved or dried immediately lest it
contribute to the odor problem. Cattle love it, but it would
need to be dried and processed for use in the pork industry.
Lexington has apparently been a
super-smelly agricultural town for years. They told us that it
used to be worse when they had alfalfa drying operations around
town. But it is difficult to imagine worse. Think of the
Smithfield packing plant in Tar Heel and throw in the rendering
and feedlots. The new ethanol plant is the good neighbor located
in an industrial park a mile or two to the southeast of town.
You might think that the awful smells
around town would totally mask the ethanol plant’s brewery
smells — and we thought so at first. Then the meat packing plant
slowed down for its nightly cleaning and the stale beer smell
reached our hotel. Local residents that we spoke with all agreed
that the whole town smells, but as to the ethanol: women said it
STINKS likes stale beer and men said it SMELLS like beer. But no
one said it didn’t smell — no one...."
Ethanol
proposal fails smell test by
Linda DeVore Published on Monday, March 19,
2007
(Click to
read)
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"...Julie McLaughlin, who now lives in
Dallas, lived in Peoria, Ill., from 1987 to 1997 and dreaded
“the stench” of the ethanol plant there, “especially in the
summer.”
“I have the experience of living near one of these
things and it’s awful, just awful,” she said, adding that
the plant’s smells reminds her of that of the Lion Brewery,
only “much, much more intense” and with “a real sour, sour,
sour … rotten eggs smell.”
from:
Officials: Ethanol proposal beneficial
They acknowledge residents’ concerns but say
the new plants are less problematic.
by
Rory Sweeney, The Times Leader,
Wilkes-Barre, PA, November 22, 2006
(Click to read)
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Northwest ethanol smell still lingers
by Jamie Loo,
SouthBendTribune.com, December 14,
2005
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Making
ethanol is a smelly process Letter
to the Editor of The Journal
Gazette in Fort Wayne, Indiana from
Rex Joyner, Fort
Wayne, October 16, 2005
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Public
comment period begins on ethanol plant by
Denise
Champagne, Finger
Lakes Times, Geneva, NY October 5, 2005
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Odor
the main ethanol concern by
Denise
Champagne, Finger
Lakes Times, Geneva, NY September 23, 2005
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Testimony of JoAnn
Czajka, who lives 1/4 of a mile from the Badger State Ethanol
plant in Monroe, Wisconsin.
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Heidi from Lena Illinois - Adkins
Energy
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Opposition
to ethanol plant growing.
By
Karl Ebert of the Northwestern Algoma,
Minnesota
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United
Wisconsin Grain Producers, L.L.C.
From their initial prospectus
#8.
Do ethanol plants ever get
sued for pollution or odor?
-
December 21, 2005
Illinois Ethanol Facility Will Significantly Reduce Emissions,
Pay Civil Penalty U.S. Newswire
(Click to read the entire
article)
"MGP Ingredients of Illinois,
Inc. (MGP) -- an ethanol producing company -- has reached a settlement to
resolve claims that it violated the Clean Air Act (CAA), which will result
in a reduction of over 1,700 tons of air pollutants a year at its ethanol
production plant in Pekin, Illinois, the Department of Justice, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the State of Illinois
announced today....
...Ethanol production facilities are a significant source of criteria air
pollutants, including VOC's, CO, NOx (nitrogen oxides) and PM (particulate
matter), as well as a number of compounds that EPA has designated
Hazardous Air Pollutants. In addition to contributing to ground-level
ozone (smog), VOC's can cause serious health problems such as cancer and
other effects; CO is harmful because it reduces oxygen delivery to the
body's organs and tissues. The primary sources of these emissions are the
feed dryers, fermentation units, distillation units, ethanol load-out
operations, and fugitive dust from plant operations, including roads...."
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Ethanol
Plant Operator Fined North Platte, 10:28 AM Jun 10, 2005,
Associated Press
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-
Ace
Ethanol to pay $300,000 for violations
Wisconsin
- Sierra
Club to Sue
South Bend Ethanol Plant -
Hoosier Chapter Sierra Club
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Adkins
Ethanol--Illinois
Attorney General suit against plant for air
pollution, and foul-smelling odors. Illinois
(a Lurgi, PSI plant)
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Lawsuit
filed against Caro Ethanol Plant -
Michigan
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United
States Settles with 12 Minnesota Ethanol
Companies - US Department
of Justice
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United
Stats of America v Gopher State Ethanol -
Minnesota
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Heartland
Grain Fuels - Ethanol Plant in City Court
South Dakota
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Minnesota
Energy Fined -
Minnesota
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High
Plains Ethanol -
New Mexico
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State
Files Environmental lawsuit in Portage County
- Wisconsin
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State
and Citizens sue Ethanol Plant in Lena -
Illinois
#7.
"Who would spend 10 cents to 20 cents
more per gallon for gasoline that reduces
mileage, degrades your car, destroys fish and
wildlife, increases air pollution, and makes the
United States more dependent on foreign oil?" Click
here for the article (in PDF)
by Ted Williams from 2004
National Audubon Society's Incite
#6. What is the experience of the
company that designed the proposed Penn-Mar
ethanol plant? click here
#5.
Are ethanol plants dangerous to people living
and working near them?
click here
#4.
Will local truck traffic increase if the
proposed Penn-Mar Ethanol plant is built? click here
Penn-Mar
Ethanol's "Truck
Stacking" map (in Adobe .PDF)
showing the stacking arrangement for some of the diesel trucks
and some (not all) of the structures over Greene Township's maximum structure
height of 45 feet.
#3.
Is it safe to build an ethanol plant close to an
Army ammunition operations area and the Army's
military vehicle mission vital to the Iraq War? click here
#2.
Where
does the wastewater go? click here
#1.
Water for ethanol production--where does it come from at Cumberland Valley Business
Park? click here
--Residential
growth in Greene Township
(where the Penn-Mar ethanol distillery has
submitted its plan):
"Dave Jemison (Jamison) said well over
2,000 new housing units could be built in Greene
Township in the next few years."
District
gets peek at growth
by
AKILAH IMANI NELSON, Public
Opinion, June 23, 2005
Map showing the areas that would require immediate evacuation
and stay indoors actions should an accident, explosion, or spill
occur on the Penn-Mar Ethanol distillery site:
All map files are very large
(high-speed connections will work best)
and may take some time to form.
- Map
with 2.5 miles
(Immediate Evacuation) and
5 miles
(Stay Indoors)
radiuses
(Click to view in pdf)
- Map of the immediate area around the Penn-Mar
proposed distillery site marked.
(Click to view in pdf)
- Map of Franklin County with 2.5 miles and 5 miles areas.
This is a very large file for high-speed connections only and it
will still take some time to view.
(Click here for map)
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Also see chemicals and hazardous materials that would be stored
at the site. (Click)
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