New ethanol plant a shot in the arm to county's economy

Pantagraph.com (Bloomington, IL)
By Bob Holliday | bholliday@pantagraph.com | Posted: Friday, July 17, 2009 12:00 am

GIBSON CITY -- One Earth Energy, the ethanol plant that went online here late last month, is huge in several ways.

The $166 million facility on 84 acres includes 20,000 yards of concrete; 1.2 million feet of electrical wiring and 1,144 tons of steel.

The plant's economic impact is large because it employs 47 people and is a shot in the arm to the Ford County economy, still reeling from recent job losses, including those caused by this summer's shut down of the Baltimore Air Coil plant in nearby Paxton.

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