Posted on 03/26/2008 1:35:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Kern County supervisors have approved plans to build a corn-powered ethanol plant north of Bakersfield.
The project from Cilion Inc., approved Tuesday night, is slated to generate as many as 55 million gallons of the fuel additive each year.
Environmental justice advocates rallied against the project, saying it would pump out nitrous oxide emissions that would worsen air quality in the polluted San Joaquin Valley.
Planners say the project's value to the community trumps the environmental concerns.
Two weeks ago, Hanford city leaders approved another ethanol plant to be based in Kings County, but agreed to pay a $1 million mitigation fee to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.
Finally; proof that the CARB bow wow is political.
“Kern County supervisors”
Suckers.
The envionmentalists are indeed sniffing something if they haven’t ever travelled up I-5 or I-99 and don’t smell the noxious smells of ONION fields during harvest time! NO way could building a plant be of ANY worse damage to the area that already SMELLS!!!
nitrous oxide?
I thought there was something funny about this ethanol scheme...
I dont know about that. Unleaded in Kern County is usually 30 cents a gallon less than L.A.
So the Sierra Club is for ethanol in everyone’s fuel in CA, just make sure it isnt produced here? There are plenty of refineries in the Famoso/Oildale area...I can’t believe it will spew off more junk than those.
>>>But speakers from the Sierra Club and the Center for Race, Poverty and the Environment said the air quality impacts of the project are just too high to be balanced by any benefits from building the plant.
Grease the right palms? ....then they should be making BIODIESEL out of those greasy palms.........
Impossible. Everyone knows ethanol cleans the air. They aren’t fooling me.
I’m mainly referring to the use of corn to produce ethanol. There are other non food products that could used and besides, why are these people still hanging on to a product that STILL has to have subsidies to make it, 20 something years worth of subsidies.
How Ironic. Where was one of our few oil reserves that AL GORE sold off to his Unocal buddies? Elk Hills, Kern County.
The Inconvenient Truth Al Gore Hopes You Forget!
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http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=468
[snip]Occidental’s planned drilling of the Elk Hills doesn’t only threaten the memory of the Kitanemuk [Indian tribe}. Environmentalists say a rare species of fox, lizard and the kangaroo rat would also be threatened by Oxy’s plans. A lawsuit has been filed under the Endangered Species Act. But none of that has given pause to Occidental or the politician who helped engineer the sale of the drilling rights to the federally-owned Elk Hills. That politician is Al Gore.
Gore recommended that the Elk Hills be sold as part of his 1995 “Reinventing Government” National Performance Review program. Gore-confidant (and former campaign manager) Tony Cohelo served on the board of directors of the private company hired to assess the sale’s environmental consequences. The sale was a windfall for Oxy. Within weeks of the announced purchase Occidental stock rose ten percent.
That was good news for Gore. Despite controversy over Dick Cheney’s plans to keep stock options if elected, most Americans don’t know that we already have a vice president with oil company stocks. Before the Elk Hills sale, Al Gore controlled between $250,000-$500,000 of Occidental stock (he is executor of a trust that he says goes only to his mother, but will revert to him upon her death). After the sale, Gore began disclosing between $500,000 and $1 million of his significantly more valuable stock.
Nowhere is Al Gore’s environmental hypocrisy more glaring than when it comes to his relationship with Occidental. While on the one hand talking tough about his “big oil” opponents and waxing poetic about indigenous peoples in his 1992 book “Earth in the Balance,” the Elk Hills sale and other deals show that money has always been more important to Al Gore than ideals.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=elk+hills
well, better than the ragheads getting it
It was sold to Flying J truckstops.
Onion fields are nice. They provide material for burgers, sandwiches, and french onion soup. Ethanol is nasty, at best a questionably viable power source, at worst a multi billion dollar boondoggle (can I get in on this one?). Nah. Have a nice day princess, loved you in Star Wars. Peace.
I found a station in my neighborhood that doesn’t have ethonal in it’s gas. I now get four mpg better mileage in my Scion xB. It went from a steady 28 to 32 in one tank - and has stayed there.
Wasn't that also done illegally - oops. I forgot. There's that "controlling legal authority" thingy
But seriously, it's time for US, the American people to revolt. We could, if we chose, give the Arabs a heads up - and Washington too...by first, limiting our trips - saving up errands to run in one trip instead of running off to town every day.
Two: gas up ONLY in stations that do not use Mideast oil!:
(COPY/PASTE, PRINT, (GIVE SOME TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY) AND EMAIL TO EVERYONE - TELL THEM TO ALSO) Print out the names of the GOOD GUYS and put it in your car.
SUNOCO
CONOCO
SINCLAIR
BP/PHILLIPS
HESS
ARCO
(If you go to SUNOCO.com, you can get a list of your local stations.
the BAD guys
SHELL
CHEVRON/TEXACO
EXXON/MOBIL
AMACO
also
CITGO - Caesar Chavez
Mail this list to everyone in your address book and ask them to do the same....we can reach millions that way...within a month.
You really shouldn’t post hoax emails.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1990006/posts?page=36#36
Oxnard has had an ongoing dispute with Kern County over the dumping of processed sewage on some farmland they’ve rented up there. Kern’s objections are environmental, which is a little funny given their eagerness to jump into this deal.
LA dumps sewage in Kern County too....although it is the far northern part I think.
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