Banks finalist for energy plant location

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Angela Gary
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Wednesday, June 23. 2010
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An energy plant that operates poultry-litter fueled power plants is considering locating in Banks County. The Banks County Board of Commissioners and the Banks County Development Authority jointly announced Wednesday morning that Fibrowatt, LLC has chosen Banks County as a finalist for location of a carbon neutral renewable energy power plant.

Fibrowatt LLC is owned by Homeland Renewable Energy of Pennsylvania. Fibrominn, the nation’s first plant of this kind, opened in Benson, Minnesota, in 2007, and it was a $200 million project which provided 100 jobs to the community.

Banks County officials and staff visited the Benson facility last week to observe the operations and meet with Benson town officials regarding the economic impact the industry has had on the local community. Fibrowatt will be choosing a location within the coming months and public information meetings will be held.

According to the company website, Fibrowatt is actively working on projects in Arkansas, Georgia, Maryland, Alabama, Mississippi, and North Carolina. Future projects are planned for Alabama, Texas and other states.

The company first developed three plants in the United Kingdom in the 1990s. Those plants were the world’s first three poultry litter fueled power plants. According to company officials, over the past 15 years, these plants have turned more than seven million tons of poultry litter and other biomass into enough electricity to serve 150,000 homes.
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#1 Finch on 06/25/10 at 07:54 PM [Reply]
Does anyone know where in Banks County??
#2 buffalo 1 on 06/26/10 at 10:52 AM [Reply]
Does this mean we might have another power co to choose from? Will jacksom emc and ga power allow this? Where will they sell this extra power? Will our rates go down? I doubt it very much!!!!!! We all know that here in banks co we have chicken litter coming out our ears!!! Do I hear reduced power for banks county residents!!!!
#3 Dawg on 06/26/10 at 01:22 PM [Reply]
No you will not have another power co to choose from. I work for Ga Power. It will not affect your rates at all. They will have to sell this power to other utilities. But from what Ive seen and read all this really is is part of the "green" initiative. It will produce enough kilowatts to make any difference around here.
#4 concerned research on 06/28/10 at 03:36 PM [Reply]
better do the research, looking up some info on this. concerns abound! noise, pollution, trucks destroying roads

http://pagecountycitizens.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/fibrowatt-quietly-they-came-into-page-county-quietly-we-would-like-you-to-leave/

http://hawksbillcabin.blogspot.com/2010/03/fibrowatt-some-updates.html
#4.1 Anonymous on 07/03/10 at 07:18 PM [Reply]
Trucks destroying roads? Cannot be no worse then the chicken trucks and the Waste Management trucks!
#5 Mike Ewall on 06/29/10 at 12:57 PM [Reply]
Fibrowatt was recently kicked out of Surry County, NC and Page County, VA after strong opposition from local residents and subsequent withdrawal of support by county politicians. Find out why. Visit http://www.energyjustice.net/fibrowatch/ and get in touch.
#6 Ted on 07/04/10 at 11:41 AM [Reply]
Thats nothing but a bunch of tree huggers that want everybody out here today, except them, to go back to horse and buggies !! That website is a bunch of clowns that follow this company around and try to scare the local residents. The name of the company is fibrowatt, not fibrowatch. This project can create hundreds of jobs in the building of this plant and hundreds of jobs after it gets into operation, and all theese companies and residents with big trucks that aint moved in weeks or months, now they can go back to work hauling litter and materials for the plant to burn. You know in our last election jobs were so important to everyone and now we have a good chance to get good high paying jobs, I say we give them a chance. Our county cannot survive on fast food and retail jobs, which i am thankful we have, we need more diversity and this is our first chance in a long while to move forward !! Good Luck to all !!
#6.1 outside observer looking in on 07/10/10 at 05:00 PM [Reply]
I think Banks County is really entitled to have ,operate,enjoy,and to thrive on a business like this....Banks County really has the talent for something like this. The more they can get the better off they will be.This need so be A Mega Ton deal (weekly). And also Banks County needs to be more diverse...
#7 AKA on 07/09/10 at 02:36 PM [Reply]
In other words, this is just a giant chicken litter incinerator.
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