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Posted on 09/28/2009 7:33:38 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Pollution regulators sue Neb. ethanol plant owner
September 24, 2009 By The Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal regulators say an ethanol plant near Sutherland has violated pollution rules by emitting too much carbon dioxide and failing to obtain proper permits for an expansion project.
The Environmental Protection Agency filed a lawsuit against Midwest Renewable Energy LLC seeking civil penalties and fines.
Company officials declined to comment because they had not seen the lawsuit.
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Ping!
Damn, they do like to eat their own, don’t they?
Releasing too much ethanol.
Yeast like to burp.
Get used to this kind of crap. With Cap and tax turning into crash and burn, the EPA will take over where congress failed and enact law via regulatory fiat. And the cowards that we just can’t seem to stop ourselves from sending to Washington won’t lift a finger to stop them because they like it when someone else does the heavy lifting for them.
Damned if you try to save the ert, damned if you don’t.
Anyone else find it impossible to believe that they would have done this? Digging deeper I bet you find they changed the rules after the work was done and now are punishing them.
The best laid plans of mice and RATS, are doomed to unintended consequences.
I happens quite often, actually. Many times, project management just doesn’t notify the compliance group and goes ahead with construction.
Other times, the facility doesn’t want to wait for the permit review so they just don’t file.
Lots of ethanol posts today:)
Die fuel contaminating) ethanol Die
We had a service station near here in Vermont that had a pump with pure gasoline brought in from Canada, for people to use in their chain saws and small engines. But the state evidently clamped down on them, and it’s no longer available.
I suppose I could drive up to Canada to buy my chainsaw fuel. That would be a REAL fuel saver!
Releasing too much CO2? We can’t have that. The plants aren’t going to like it. (The houseplants aka the demonrat party, that is)
Analyzes of the effectiveness of ethanol routinely ignore the fact that for every ton of ethanol produced (via good ‘ol fermentation of course), almost a ton of CO2 is produced.
Most analyzes show the production and subsequent use of ethanol results in about the same amount of carbon outputs of simply using a gallon of gasoline to start with, when all the carbon inputs in terms of manufacturing fertilizer, fuel inputs for growing and harvesting corn, and the energy it takes to convert corn to ethanol.
However, when you add the CO2 output during fermentation, ethanol is a tremendous loser in terms of total CO2 outputs. And this doesn’t even consider the negative impacts on soil quality, massive consumption of water, price impacts on food, etc.
Unfortunately, the greenies all flunked junior high school science and/or are simply frauds. They ignore inconvenient truths like solar panels are effective for only 8 hours per day maximum, and there are no super batteries for the other 16 hours. Or the fact that it would take 160,000 800 foot high windmills plastered over 15% of the continental U.S. to replace current carbon-based energy in the U.S.
If these things actually worked, then the greatest free market economy with the most innovative brains in the world would have switched from carbon energy to other alternatives long ago.
But no, the greenies believe in a free lunch and feel the laws of thermodynamics can be repealed if Congress only had the backbone.
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