Citizens for a Quality Environment
Working toward a balance between a healthy environment and responsible development.

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Citizens for a Quality Environment is an organization consisting of individuals working together toward preserving, reclaiming, and protecting a quality environment in accordance with the Environmental Protection Agency's Mission "to protect human health and the environment."

Citizens for a Quality Environment come together to share concerns, target issues important to our group and our communities, gather information, and work toward issue resolutions."

Greene Township Comprehensive Plan Info
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Info about Penn-Mar Ethanol's  appeal to PA Commonwealth Court
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Info about Greene Township's Complaint against
Penn-Mar
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Info on LIDA & the land sale to Penn-Mar Ethanol (Click)

  Ethanol Plant Has Trouble Putting Down Roots
by
Brian Roche, WGAL TV, 6.22.06
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Help to protect
LEAD from future
BRACs through
Smart Growth
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"Smart growth recognizes connections between development and quality of life."
Principles of "Smart Growth"

 "Ethanol, a costly snake oil & danger to America..."
by
 Ray Wallace
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Huntington County, Indiana opposes ethanol-biodiesel plants:  
Citizen Advocates for a Responsible Environment
C.A.R.E.
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Asphalt fumes possibly linked to increased rates of depression
suicide!
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Click to Report Warrior Roofing asphalt fumes to PADEP

Do ethanol distilleries send malodors
into
 communities and have there been lawsuits?
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 Remember Hugh and Barb's Video (Click)

   DANGERS associated with ethanol distilleries and the storage of volatile materials & chemicals
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Pictures of Franklin County Prison now under construction
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We see our t-shirts everywhere!
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Some different pictures in a Slideshow
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 Pictures of CASD land!!

Questions about Penn-Mar Ethanol's proposed
24 /7 /365 distillery
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Amounts
of air pollutants Penn-Mar Ethanol Distillery would generated (Click)

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Online Complaint Form
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Info about Penn-Mar Ethanol's Registered Lobbyist
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If you are being exposed to (smelling) the Warrior Roofing tar malodor from their tar fumes (Warrior is on land directly next to
Penn-Mar's proposed site)
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Car Pool and other TIPS TO SAVE ON GASOLINE
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Ethanol Plant Rally (08/05)
Video from WHP CBS 21 News
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Video of the Greene Township Planning Commission Meeting 
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Man fired for getting gassed on spilled ethanol at work
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New Question Why does the The National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) website and official Congressional transcripts of the Subcommittee Hearing continue to present misinformation about the status of Penn-Mar's ethanol distillery in Franklin County, PA?  In letters dated June 14, 2006, C4aQE brought this mistake to the attention of the witness before the Subcommittee, Colleen Landkamer, and to Matt Chase, Executive Director of NADO.  They did not respond.  The mistake was brought to the direct attention of the Subcommittee members in letters dated July 19, 2006.  Again we have received no response and the misinformation has not been corrected.

"The ethanol plant in the Cumberland Valley Business Park is operating, according to testimony before a U.S. House agriculture subcommittee... 
 
..."It was misinformation*," said Russ Montgomery, president of the Regional Economic Development District Initiatives of South-central Pennsylvania....  
   
..."It is very disturbing to me that people in responsible positions would attempt to alter reality in order to make the Penn-Mar Ethanol project look more viable than it is, or to justify to Congress that tax money supplied to support the project was well spent," said DeEtta Antoun , director of Citizens for a Quality Environment.... " 
    
*misinformation n : information that is incorrect
misinform tr.v.: To provide with incorrect information.  from www.dictionary.com
 
From The National Association of Development Organizations NADO website:
"Alternative Fuel Program: The Regional Economic Development District Initiatives (REDDI) of South Central Pennsylvania, headquartered in Harrisburg, successfully applied for a $45,000 grant from USDA’s Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG) program to complete a feasibility study for the construction of an ethanol facility. From this initial seed funding, REDDI helped form a group of 45 farmers from northern Maryland and south central Pennsylvania into Pennmar, LLC and completed the initial analysis and strategic plan for the venture. As a result, 55 acres on the former Letter Kenny Army facility were purchased and construction of an $80 million processing facility began. The facility generates 60 million gallons of ethanol from regionally-produced corn, employs 35 people in the region and generates $85 million annually. For more information, contact Russ Montgomery at 717.920.8450 or rmontgomery@reddionline.com.
► Click here to read this on the NADO website
► Click here to read Colleen Landkamer's testimony before the House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture
► Transcript of entire Rural Development Programs. Serial No. 109-29
    Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research Hearing, March 30, 2006 (This is a very large PDF file on the House Committee on Agriculture website) (Click) 

Ethanol Plant Option Expires
  
7/20/2006 The Sentinel
 
The clock ran out at midnight Wednesday on a sales agreement for a Franklin County property targeted for a controversial ethanol manufacturing plant.
 
Penn Mar Ethanol had until yesterday to close a $2.2 million deal on a 55-acre tract in the Cumberland Valley Business Park in Greene Township west of Shippensburg to build a 50-million-gallon-a-year plant to manufacture ethanol from corn.  
 
Wednesday became the final deadline after the executive board of Letterkenny Industrial Development Authority declined Penn Mar's request for another contract extension at a special board meeting Monday.
(Click to read this article more articles on the REDDI website)

According to the REDDI website, J. Daniel Wolf, Penn Mar Ethanol, LLC is a member of REDDI's Agriculture Economic Development Committee (organized 7/2/02).  
 
Information on Shagin & Anstine LLC's website (shaginanstine.com) newsletter from 10/4/2002 - "Penn Mar LLC grew out of the ethanol steering committee spear-headed by REDDI.  REDDI will continue to play a key role as the project manager of the ethanol project, and is providing the services of its Agricultural Economic Development Specialist, Scott Welsh, to Penn Mar LLC."  (see REDDI website for more information)

Many Questions about Penn-Mar Ethanol's proposed 24 / 7 / 365 distillery  (Click here)

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Letterkenny
Army Depot not on the BRAC '05 List! (click)
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Environmental Cleanup Wins Letterkenny Army Depot National Recognition
Washington, D.C. (January 22, 2003)

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Price  of Ethanol is increasing
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