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Article: Ethanol plant giving town a liftGibson City welcomes jobs, economic impact
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- July 17, 2009
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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
shutdown of the Baltimore Air Coil plant in nearby Paxton.
"This is one of the better things that has happened to Gibson
City in the last few years," said plant General Manager Steve Kelly.
Residents in the community of 3,400 agreed.
The plant will ...