February 16, 2009
Watch the video of the February 9 public meeting with the Lake County Indiana solid waste officials which took place in Kankakee. They discussed the privately funded garbage-to-ethanol plant breaking ground in the next few months in their community. Their county borders our county to the east. Please click here
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9193628396670415374&hl=en For a copy of the handout sheet you can print out, provide by the Lake County officials, please click here Lake County Indiana garbage-to-ethanol.pdf In addition to the hand out, they are also making available thousands of dollars of research material they did on the science and business plan of this company to those who are interested.. A major accounting firm studied the business plan and Purdue University did a study of the science. Both organizations gave a glowing report. A plant in Arkansas is available for touring. For more details see the February 11 article below.
February 11, 2009
City of Kankakee Mayoral Candidate Nina Epstein doesn’t have a clue.
Nina Epstein statement during the debate with Republican opponent Tim Schmidt about the Lake County Indiana garbage-to-ethanol plant not being viable is a disservice to the community. She admitted she did not attend the recent local public meeting with the Lake County Indiana Solid Waste Director and is still backing the Fred Barbara and Tom Volini 236 acre dump. Tim and Karen Schmidt arranged the meeting with the Lake County Indiana solid waste officials.
The garbage-to-ethanol
plant will create 400 construction jobs and165 jobs to run the plant at $18.00 per hour and up.
Waste Management
and Allied have requested to take garbage to this plant because
the plant will only charge $17.50 per ton to take garbage while garbage dumps
cost up to three times that much.