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  • Natural Gas + Ethanol = Explosion

    - by Lar­ry Phillips, June 30, 2014, Leader and Times academized.com Leader & Times Online Fire­fight­ers respond­ed to an explo­sion Sun­day evening at Con­esto­ga Energy’s Arkalon Ethanol Plant. For­tu­nate­ly, no one was injured from the blast or sub­se­quent fire, accord­ing to Seward Coun­ty Fire Chief Mike Rice. “We got the page at 7:04 p.m. (Sun­day) about a pos­si­ble…

  • Couple Suing Iowa Ethanol Plant

    - May 21, 2014, WhoTV.com   localtvwhotv.wordpress.com A Neva­da cou­ple is suing a cel­lu­losic ethanol plant after a fire threat­ened their home. Ernest and Bar­bara Clark are suing DuPont Danisco. They are claim­ing the com­pa­ny has act­ed reck­less­ly and care­less­ly in stor­ing the high­ly com­bustible corn stover across from their home. On March 31st, at least eight of the…

  • Ethanol Plant at Buffalo Lake, MN Cited

    - April 14, 2014. Source: KDUZ/KARP St. Paul, Minn.– The ethanol plant in Buf­fa­lo Lake for­mer­ly owned by Min­neso­ta Ener­gy is in the process of cor­rect­ing water and air qual­i­ty per­mit vio­la­tions, and must pay a $10,000 civ­il penal­ty, accord­ing to an agree­ment with the Min­neso­ta Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Agency (MPCA). In Octo­ber 2012, Renville Coun­ty offi­cials…

  • Push for Ethanol Production Carries Costs to Land

    - by Dina Cap­piel­lo and Matt Apuz­zo, Novem­ber 12, 2013, Source: AP The hills of south­ern Iowa bear the scars of America’s push for green ener­gy: The brown gash­es where rain has washed away the soil. The pol­lut­ed streams that dump fer­til­iz­er into the water supply. Even the ceme­tery that dis­ap­peared like an appari­tion into a cornfield.…

  • Was Ethanol Ever the Answer?

    Q: What can cool the ethanol market? A: The EPA Pub­lished: Mon­day, 18 Nov 2013 | 1:06 PM ET By: Javier E. David Get­ty Images Thanks to the inter­ven­tion of the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA), the tor­rid mar­ket for ethanol credits—a linch­pin of efforts to inject more corn-based fuel into the U.S. gaso­line supply—may final­ly be set to cool,…

  • Lawsuits Likely as EPA Declares US Ethanol Blend Wall a ‘Reality’

    Law­suits Like­ly as EPA Declares US Ethanol Blend Wall a ‘Real­i­ty’ - by Cezary Pod­kul, Octo­ber 11, 2013. Source: Reuters With two words, the U.S. envi­ron­ment reg­u­la­tor may be hand­ing oil refin­ers the biggest win of a long bat­tle to beat back the seem­ing­ly inex­orable rise of ethanol fuel. In a leaked pro­pos­al that would sig­nif­i­cant­ly scale…

  • Cellulosic Ethanol Refinery Proposal Loses Major Partner

    Cel­lu­losic Ethanol Refin­ery Pro­pos­al Los­es Major Part­ner  - by War­ren John­ston, August 11, 2013. Source: Val­ley News [For more infor­ma­tion on this facil­i­ty please read “Cel­lu­losic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand”] Mas­co­ma Corp., the Lebanon-based devel­op­er of cut­ting-edge bio­fu­els tech­nol­o­gy, has lost its major part­ner in a pro­posed $233 mil­lion ethanol plant in Michigan.  Although Mas­co­ma did not con­firm…

  • Cellulosic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand?

    Cel­lu­losic Ethanol: A Bio-Fool’s Errand? The good news is that the cel­lu­losic ethanol industry—turning trees and woody plants into liq­uid fuels—has yet to take off. And with­out an end­less stream of tax­pay­er hand­outs to devel­op this pol­lut­ing and envi­ron­men­tal­ly destruc­tive ener­gy source, it prob­a­bly nev­er will. Under the guise of tak­ing action on cli­mate change, the US…