GRI
02-09-2007, 10:48 AM
have any of you loacls been following this?
heres some info
I have been following the local news by me and for 1.5 years a biodiesel plant has been trying to come into a town next to mine. Im pretty siked because nobody around me offers any kind of bio diesel.
The only problem is that the town it wants to locate to is preventing it because the site is considered a "wetland".
Now dont get me wrong, I am a evironmentalist (not the hippy tree hugger type) and think that the wetlands should be protected but ther is already a sewage treatment plant 200 yards from the same location, not to mention a Super Wal-Mart, mini plaza, Pool suply shop, car sales place, car wash, Heavy equipment garage and 1 or two other places.
So my question is, why the hell would a Bio diesel plant do any more damage than any of those.
All the town would have to do is make them ISO14001 compliable and the environment would be protected (the space would be utilized but the water system would be clean).
Sorry kind of a rant but when Im paying $2.69 for crap diesel and something that would help thousands of comercial and no comercial vehicles in the area it makes sense to me. especially since most businesses write fuel costs off in their taxes. If the fuel costed less then that would be less they would have to write off and less the state and federal gov has to pay back to us citizens.
I did a little more research and one of the other big factors of the biodiesel plant be rejected is the rail way that was harmed during our flooding.
This railway was ot very busy and the state was tossing around eliminating because of high cost of the maintenance it needed. But they decided to do the maintenance and keep the railway open. Well the maintenance was almost done and it got ruined. by not one but 2 100 year floods in the same year. LOL
But I guess the state has now stated that they wil not rebuild the railway system again to be used.
I guess they were going to use the railway to transprot the ingrediants needed for biodiesel.
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heres some info
I have been following the local news by me and for 1.5 years a biodiesel plant has been trying to come into a town next to mine. Im pretty siked because nobody around me offers any kind of bio diesel.
The only problem is that the town it wants to locate to is preventing it because the site is considered a "wetland".
Now dont get me wrong, I am a evironmentalist (not the hippy tree hugger type) and think that the wetlands should be protected but ther is already a sewage treatment plant 200 yards from the same location, not to mention a Super Wal-Mart, mini plaza, Pool suply shop, car sales place, car wash, Heavy equipment garage and 1 or two other places.
So my question is, why the hell would a Bio diesel plant do any more damage than any of those.
All the town would have to do is make them ISO14001 compliable and the environment would be protected (the space would be utilized but the water system would be clean).
Sorry kind of a rant but when Im paying $2.69 for crap diesel and something that would help thousands of comercial and no comercial vehicles in the area it makes sense to me. especially since most businesses write fuel costs off in their taxes. If the fuel costed less then that would be less they would have to write off and less the state and federal gov has to pay back to us citizens.
I did a little more research and one of the other big factors of the biodiesel plant be rejected is the rail way that was harmed during our flooding.
This railway was ot very busy and the state was tossing around eliminating because of high cost of the maintenance it needed. But they decided to do the maintenance and keep the railway open. Well the maintenance was almost done and it got ruined. by not one but 2 100 year floods in the same year. LOL
But I guess the state has now stated that they wil not rebuild the railway system again to be used.
I guess they were going to use the railway to transprot the ingrediants needed for biodiesel.
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