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Article: Letters to the editor
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- October 11, 2007
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No benefits for city
Well, Go Topeka and the Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce have
misfired once again.
Go Topeka offered up $50,000 (from the quarter-cent sales tax we
pay) to purchase the land for the proposed ethanol plant at US-24
highway and Huxman Road. Unfortunately, the revenue stream the city
assumed it would receive from this proposed business has all but
dried up. Instead of purchasing water from the city, Emerald
Renewable Energy (aka Cargill Inc.) is planning on buying the
millions of gallons of water needed to operate the plant from a
rural water district. To avoid paying the city a franchise tax for
natural gas, the company is planning nine miles of pipeline to
circumvent ...