[CPEO-BIF] Circleville, Ohio former paper mill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mill site to be cleaned up; ethanol plant considered


By Mike Pramik
COLUMBUS DISPATCH (OH)
October 13, 2008

Corn could be in the future for a former Circleville paper mill that has 
been idle for a decade.

A group of Illinois investors has secured a state grant to help clean up 
and redevelop the former Smurfit-Stone mill near Rt. 23, and company 
officials said they are working with the city to develop a $120 million 
ethanol plant there.

The Green Investment Group will receive a $750,000 grant from the Clean 
Ohio Assistance Fund to remove asbestos from the vacant mill before it 
tears down the buildings. The plant was closed in 1998, throwing more 
than 100 people out of work, after the merger of Jefferson Smurfit and 
Stone Container.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2008/10/13/ZONE1013.ART_ART_10-13-08_C12_7FBIGN9.html?sid=101

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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