Louisiana will get two new biofuel plants
It was announced Friday that two new biodiesel plants will be built in Louisiana, according to the Advocate and WBRZ 2 TV news. The two plants, to be built by a subsidiary of the Shaw Group for $1.5 billion, will be in West Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes and will initially produce 100 million gallons a year. One ethanol and one biodiesel plant will be built, with the biodiesel plant able to make 1 billion gallons a year and the ethanol plant able to produce 500 million gallons a year, if planned expansion over several years goes as planned. The plants will use sugar cane, soybeans and other crops grown in the state. The biodiesel plant will be in Port Allen, and the fuel could be exported to Europe for about five cents a gallon, if more is produced than is needed locally.[Source: 2theadvocate.com]
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diggity dank 5:09PM (5/09/2006)
Before anybody gets too excited, 5 cents a gallon is the shipping cost of the bio-diesel, not the actual cost for a gallon.
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sensitive_man 8:52AM (5/10/2006)
I am from Louisiana and I am not happy about this.
It is my understanding that these plants pollute more than a normal refinery.
2. They are being developed on green space, like we have not lost enough viable public lands in the past nine months?
3. Louisiana does not need and should not want more industrial refineries that pollute. Our air quality in the summer (now) is bad at all times of the day and when I say bad I mean all you have to do is open the door and it hits you in the face. We are prisoners in our own home due to the air quality issue.
Once again Louisiana is the dumping grounds for the countries chemical plants and we don't want anymore.
This has been a public service message from Cancer Alley.
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