From the online Globe!

[Bubba]

Ford county Commision approve conditional use permit for Wright Ethanol plant.



What the hell are they thinking! In it for the quick buck without thinking about the future of the area and our natural resources.

[Made in the USA]

As I said in an earlier post, Bubba--------


"To coin the old ACDC song, "Money Talks"!!
There are some strange things about this deal----------Oh well, I hope it was worthwhile and prospers."


Government by the people, for the people-----yeah--------include, screw the people!!

[lowflight]

This may be a good thing for the county, wind farm, now a Ethanol plant. it can't hurt us any worse tham the packing plants have.

[Bubba]

Originally Posted by lowflight

This may be a good thing for the county, wind farm, now a Ethanol plant. it can't hurt us any worse tham the packing plants have.

Try saying that when they start rationing water and you will only be allowed to bathe once a week, or flush your toilet twice a day, or the only drinking and cooking water comes from a store!

BTW, how is the wind farm good for the county?

[TexKan]

You can have catapult contests with them????

[lurker]

Swayze's mailbox must of swollen over the weekend.

[ksgrainman]

Help me understand the conern. Why will this lead to water rationing?

[lurker]

Originally Posted by ksgrainman

Help me understand the conern. Why will this lead to water rationing?

Water is rationed now in Kansas. Buying water rights from irrigated farm fields is the current ploy.

[Bubba]

Originally Posted by ksgrainman

Help me understand the conern. Why will this lead to water rationing?

Because when the wells dry up, like they are starting to now, that will happen. They no longer allow wells to run south of Ensign is what I heard from somebody on the watershed district board. Several years ago a high pressure gas line was ran across the river east of Dodge City and running water was found at a depth of 2 feet. There is a line being installed in town across the river now and they are at 9 feet deep and still haven't hit water.

An ethanol plant takes HUGE amounts of water for their process. The plant will eventually cause a shortfall in corn and then our wise farmers will start growing corn again in the area which also takes HUGE amounts of water to grow.

The ethanol plant is being built for one purpose...GREED. The company is after the quick buck because there presently is a demand for ethanol because some people think they are doing the environment a favor by using it. They also get a big tax break from the government. What happens when the tax breaks and the water dry up? They close shop and leave town after raping our local natural resources.

[dirtdigger0416]

The absolute ignorance of some of my fellow citizens about how much water the ethanol plant is going to use is absolutely beyond me. Everyone keeps harping on the 330 million gallons of water that the ethanol plant is going to uses every year, of which 25 percent is going to be used again for irrigation. That is roughly a net water use for the ethanol plant of 250 million gallons. And of that 110 million gallons is actually turned into something. Let us look at a few other things in the area that seem to be just hunky dory, or at least nobody will talk about it. Just how much water does EXCEL use every year. Water which is extremely polluted when it leaves the plant and has no other use. Conservatively I believe that they use at least 500 gallons per head times, what, 5000 head a day? Folks, that is 2.5 million gallons a day times 365 days in a year. By my calculator, that is 912,500,000 gallons a year for the one packing plant alone. Does anybody know how much say, a 40,000 head feedyard uses, just to water those cattle a year. Cattle drink about 10 to 15 gallons of water a day, a total of 400,000 gallons a day, 146,000,000 gallons a year at 10 gallons a day. That does not account for the overflow waterers that they use. What about a circle of corn that is irrigating at its full water right of 24 acre inches. That comes to about 83,000,000 gallons of water for one circle of corn. How many of those do we have around here. So you see, that 330 million gallons which is more than likely already being pumped, because there are no new water rights, is a small amount of the water that is used around this town.
This is not to say that I am not concerned about water use and abuse, because I am very much so. I am much more concerned about the abuse of water than the justified use. Just open your minds a little more and realize that the ethanol plant is not going to be the end of us by itself.