I checked tonight's Des Moines City Council agenda and found this item is 
#48 on the agenda -- with items # 3-42 on the consent agenda (they'll all be 
approved at the same time unless one of the council reps request an item be 
separated from the rest).  The meeting begins at 4:30 so it won't be too far 
into it when this issue is discussed.

I also found the Communication the council received about the subject.

"They are interested in the entire 166-acre parcel located south of Vandalia 
Road and west of SE 43rd Street in the Des Moines Agrimergent Technology 
Park."  The proposed plant would have a capacity to produce 100 million 
gallons of ethanol per year.

I thought you might also be interested in this quote:

"The company’s ethanol production facility will be state-of-the-art with no 
environmental drawbacks.  Air emissions will be well within State-mandated 
levels.  Only non-contact water will be discharged.  "

Here's the link:  
http://www.dmgov.org/mayor_council/agendas/2006_as/blue/06-214.htm

Neila Seaman, MPA
Director
Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter
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Subject: Ethanol plant in Des Moines?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:18:47 -0500

In today's Des Moines Register, there is an article about a group of
investors who are scheduled to appear Monday before the DM City Council to
discuss buying city-owned land for building a 100-million-gallon-a-year
ethanol plant.

The investors are officials of Lincolnway Energy Co., which is also building
a plant near Nevada, Iowa, that will make 50 million gallons of ethanol per
year.

Their plant near Nevada will be coal-fired.

The site in Des Moines has not been disclosed.

I think Des Moines City Council meetings begin at 4:30 p.m. at City Hall.

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