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Pollution - USA - Residents rally against ethanol plant plans
Process begun to appeal zoning change; halt construction
Aberdeen,SD,USA -Aberdeen American News, by Jackie Burke -May. 18, 2006: -- Some neighbors to a proposed rural Aberdeen ethanol plant say they're furious and plan to appeal a decision to rezone land that would allow the plant to be built... Glacial Lakes Energy, based in Watertown, plans to build a $140 million plant - Aberdeen Energy - about five miles west of the intersection of U.S. Highway 12 and U.S. Highway 281. The company hopes to start building this fall and have the plant completed in March 2008... Potential ethanol plant neighbors Jeff Voeller and Julie Zastrow are collecting signatures to appeal Tuesday night's Brown County Planning and Zoning Commission decision. The planning commission agreed to recommend that land be rezoned from agricultural to heavy industrial, which would allow the ethanol plant to be built... The Brown County Commission will have to make a final decision on the zoning change... Voeller and Zastrow said they moved to rural Aberdeen because they wanted to get away from the city and live in peace. With the new plant, that peacefulness is gone, they said... Glacial Lakes' Energy Commodities Manager Bert Madstadt assured residents Tuesday night that Aberdeen Energy would only have a slight smell from time to time. But with the wind blowing south most of the time, the couple is skeptical. Their land is about one mile south of the proposed Aberdeen Energy site...
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