Last night while sipping a cold beverage on the deck, I couldn't help noticing the distance noise that was annoying me. That was the sound of Jobs, Income, Revenue and tax dollars being sucked out from under the residents of Adams County. While Mayor Spring, GREDF and others quietly stand by, Quincy is quickly getting the shaft from a neighboring county that is begging for business.
UPDATED 5/31:
From the QHW
Janssen said West Quincy wants the economic development promised by the ethanol plant, and he's surprised that Staff, who chairs the Western Illinois Economic Development Authority, seems to be encouraging the plant to go outside Illinois by representing the association.
"Typically when ethanol plants make an announcement of where they're going to build, it's like hitting the lottery for the folks that live there. Very seldom do you run into a situation where you have this kind of resistance for a good thing," he said.
"I understand what their concerns are, but there's a lot of fears among folks that might be unjustified ... I hate to see the positives go away because of their narrow focus on what they consider to be negatives."
On another note, here is the "mission" statement from GREDF's website:
GREDF Mission
Great River Economic Development Foundation seeks to recruit and retain businesses in Quincy and Adams County as a way of preserving and expanding local employment opportunities and improving the area's tax base. GREDF helps existing businesses grow, promotes Adams County as a location for new businesses, and works to enhance the area's economic infrastructure and quality of life.
14 comments:
BUT Life is Good in Adams County !!
hahahahahahaha
Life is good ! Jobs are leaving ! but life is good ! Our cops are fascist pigs who abuse soccor moms and high school students , but life is good. We have serious meth problems and employiers need to hire 100 to find 7 clean people but LIFE is good.
They SUCK ! the Ethanol plant would be nice but there are serious issues with placement . It's not the neighbors it's the transport costs .
But Life is good
What do you mean, "it's the transport costs"? Granted, I wouldn't want an ethanol plant across the street from me either, but this group had made public their desire to build the plant on N. 60th St.
Now that they've met with resistance, they're looking elsewhere, and neighboring communities are all over it. I don't see how "transport costs" factor into the equation. The proposed site was near a major highway, and rail access.
If Adams County doesn't want the plant, they'll just build it somewhere else.
First of all, let me stae that I would absolutely hate to see this plant elswhere but I have to agree with 10:13.
Its not a matter of highway or rail. It is a matter of river transport. Truck and train transportation costs are much higher than barges. Rail car orders are out over 3 years at this point. So your might not be able to get the available cars to ship the incoming or end product. It really comes down to the economics of shipping the end product to refineries. River transport is just much more affordable which affects the plants bottom line especially with the market fluctuations of ethanol.
In all honesty these investors need to be looking at either the south or north river bottoms. the south bottoms between ADM and the old Celetex plant have all three forms of transportation readily available. Currently there are improvements for semi traffic are being made to the area. It has no neighbors to contend with. A natural gas pipeline also runs right through this area.
just some thoughts on the subject.
Rail car 13,000 gal
Barge 100,000-430,000 gal
Refineries Down the river from here !
Do the math !
I would love it here also but the fact is I would love a plant that is making money and stays a float for longer than 5 years. Also Ethanol is the same amount of therms to make the same amout of therms. In layman's terms the energy you get from one gallon of ethanol is the same as the energy it took to make 1 gal of ethanol .
new info to add to 7:09 post
Looks as though the area is not as good as once percieved. The gas pipeline futures are almost all tied up by a current firm in the south bottoms.
Maybe GREDF can bring in another restraunt or two. Maybe even another motel.
correct me if I am wrong, but didn't I read in the same article that GREDF gave the partners two possible alternative sites?
They can put this plant anywhere they want. It will be belly up in 5 years.
Point #1:
Correct!! GREDF gave 2 of the 4 sites presented. The other 2 were from residents who did not want it in there backyard. That makes GREDF about equal with the general population on promoting Adams County.
Point #2:
If you can predict the future, your time here on the blogs is wasted. People 5 yrs ago didn't drink bottled water, and look where it is today ???
If the investors show the same foresight they have on location, (not near a barge dock) then I have some serious concerns that in 5 years we will have another eyesore like the celetex building.
So 2 came from GREDF and 2 more came from the people working with GREDF on this project. Look, I am usually the first to bang on them when nothing gets done in this area, but I think your banging them for trying to be part of the solution on this deal.
Pur the thing over in MO, who cares. It's the democrats that are complaining, someone needs to tell them not everyone can work for the city or drivers license. For real, all they care about is themselves & they own interests.
Put a big ole hog lot in next to them, they like ham & bacon, don't they!
"It's the democrats that are complaining,"
Last time I looked Lori Murfin was far from being a democrat.
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