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Originally Posted by bucks native
There are thousands of acres of fallow fields on former dairy farms in upstate PA. This could prove to be a boon to former farm families who are just sitting on acreage and working elsewhere. It could also translate into a rise in price/acre in NEPA.
I've been following the ethanol issue for some time and the plants in the midwest are doing just fine but haven't been able to keep-up with demand. Placing a plant closer to the population centers makes good sense economically. I've wondered for some time why this hasn't yet been done in PA.
I can't speak to the opposition from locals to the site choice. What's the issue?
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It seems that Foster Wheeler vacated the proposed ethanol plant two decades ago and left the locals with seriously if not dangerously contaminated groundwater. Efforts to trace the contamination to FW and then to get FW's compliance were typically difficult and slow. It was termed a SuperFund site.
The residents of Mountain Top are justifiably wary of potential environmental threats as a consequence of their bad experience with FW.
Here are some links to EPA information in the matter:
http://loggerhead.epa.gov/arweb/pdf/2069558.pdf
http://loggerhead.epa.gov/arweb/publ...=PAD003031788#