Sentences with phrase «local ethanol plant»

The community has also benefited from construction jobs related to the project, creation of two full time jobs at L.P. Gill, and lower and more predictable energy costs at the local ethanol plant.

Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year.

Not exact matches

There are ethanol plants where the source of funding was the local community: A few thousand families all put in, say, $ 10,000 each.

Selfa thought that had these communities been aware of ethanol production's impact on the local water supply, support for the plants may not have been as strong.

But making that dream a reality could harm local environments and would require developing new technology to harvest, process and convert such plant material into biofuels such as ethanol.

The project benefits the local community by preventing odor in the surrounding areas, improving air quality through reduction of volatile emissions, and displacing fossil fuel dependency at the ethanol plant.

The Lincolnland Agri - Energy ethanol plant, a local co-op, looms beyond a field of scorched corn in Palestine, Illinois.

Numerous new ethanol plants are using local manure to biogas for production power.