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Kansas City-based Alternative Energy Sources Inc. said today it plans to construct a third ethanol plant, though it continues to seek construction financing for all of the facilities. Alternative Energy said it has taken an option on 100 acres at a business park in Greenville, Ill., which is 45 miles east of St. Louis. The site is served by the Illinois Western Railroad on tracks adjacent to the acreage. It also has easy access to the interstate highway system. Alternative Energy's announcement said construction on this third plant would begin within the next year, with the plant in operation in late 2008. Like two others the company announced, the Greenville plant would produce about 110 million gallons of ethanol a year. This is the third site on which Alternative Energy has acquired an option with plans to build an ethanol plant.
Today's topic: A story by Northwestern reporter Pat Wolff shows how the residents of a Berlin mobile home park learned -- with the rest of the public -- that the Wal-Mart across their street will actually be replaced by a Wal-Mart Supercenter on the land where they now live.
The residents knew Morgan Manor mobile home park was a goner. But it was in a city of Berlin and Wal-Mart corporate annoucement they found out what would displace them.
What do you think?
Does the economic surge Berlin can expect from a Supercenter justify Morgan Manor's demise? Or, are Morgan Manor residents getting disrespected here?
The OshKonversation is ready for your input...
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The Inland Empire is one of the nation's fastest growing regions. With the explosion of growth, the need for more and more housing has become a vital component of many cities' planning objectives.Fontana is just one city that is facing a need for more housing, and the way the city is meeting that challenge provides a case study of what is happening all over the region.John Husing, the prominent economist who has long studied the Inland Empire, said that multi-family housing is inevitable in the region."Without question, multi-family housing is a vital component of the Inland Empire's economy. Not everyone wants to live in a detached single-family home," he said.Developers have reacted to the need for multi-family housing and are building upscale complexes that feature many amenities that are sometimes only found in custom-built homes in the Inland Empire.Husing noted that without multi-family housing, many people would be unable to afford to live in the Inland Empire.
(AGI) - Rome, 23 Oct - 2006 "has been another successful year", the eight consecutive year for the construction sector, and the forecast for the coming year is positive, with an increase in investment of 0.9pct, stated the president of Ance Paolo Buzzetti presenting the Joint Observatory for the Construction Industry. "2006 - he stated - has been another positive year, the eight consecutive year for our sector. Investment in construction has gone up by 1.1pct (a better result that that in 2005 that was at 0.5pct), reaching 144 billion euro. 2007, according to our forecast - Buzzetti continued - will also be a year of growth, with an increase in investment in construction of 0.9pct. It can be said therefore that the sector is continuing to grow, even if the rate of development in the last four years is lower that that recorded in the years between 2000 and 2002.
Fire officials have determined that a trailer home fire that killed an elderly Bemis man this morning originated with an electric coffee maker, according to Fire Marshal Wayne Arnond. Firefighters were sent to a single-wide mobile home at the end of 33 Cypress Gardens Drive at about 7:30 a.m., according to the Jackson Fire Department. .
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