[CPEO-BIF] Foster Wheeler site, Wright Township, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wright Township won't be home to ethanol plant

BY COULTER JONES
The Citizen's Voice (PA)
January 20, 2007

Northeastern Pennsylvania will get an ethanol plant by summer 2008, Rich 
Scheller said Friday, but it won't be in Mountain Top.

Scheller, chief executive officer of Northeast Ethanol and Renewable 
Resources, said "pre-existing environmental conditions" at the former 
Foster Wheeler site in the Crestwood Industrial Park, Wright Township, 
proved too costly to pursue construction of the company's proposed $100 
million plant. The company invested almost $100,000 in engineering 
studies and legal fees investigating it, he said.

Northeast Ethanol's plant would produce 50 million gallons of ethanol 
annually and employ about 50 people full-time, paid $15 to $20 hourly. 
Scheller assured the company would build a plant in the region; however, 
he wouldn't release the other four locations the company has considered.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17733826&BRD=2259&PAG=461&dept_id=455154&rfi=6

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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