May 1, 2008

 

Garbage-To-Ethanol Plants Are Being Built Elsewhere.  Why Not Here?

 

 

  Please click on this link http://www.brightcove.tv/search.jsp?query=coskata 

It will take you to some very informative short video clips on Coskata, Inc., www.coskata.com.  This is the company General Motors is in partnership with in Warrenville, Illinois  which is building garbage-to-ethanol plants.  Warrenville is near Aurora.  They are planning to build these plants on a global basis.  There is no reason why we can't get one here. 

 

 Even if Mayor Green and Barbara -Volini win their dump, it will be cheaper to process garbage into ethanol then dumping it. Don't forget all the jobs that these plants create.

 

Lake County Indian projects a savings of $12,000,000 per year in garbage removal costs for their County with the building of two garbage-to-ethanol plants by two other companies within their county and the creation of  250 jobs and hundreds more in construction jobs. See article here http://www.nwi.com/articles/2008/03/21/news/lake_county/doc1a0efe9ecdc9fbe086257413000d5e12.txt 

 

Why can't this be done here?  If  City of Kankakee Mayor Green and our Kankakee County economic development leaders made the same effort to get a garbage-to-ethanol plant as they have for garbage dumps, it would happen!

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