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Click on the audio icon on the post below to hear the entire program at the historic groundbreaking in Evansville this morning as Prairie Productions broke ground for the largest biodiesel plant in Wisconsin, and set the stage for a possible soybean crushing plant to sit next to it.
The Observer remembers well the first meeting at Planning Commission when the president of Landmark rose to introduce the principals of Prairie Production to the Evansville Planning members. He said that Landmark was involved in many TIF projects throughout Wisconsin and that they saw the biodiesel project as a win-win transaction for the citizens of Evansville and the project investors. He promised they would to be a good neighbor as they had been in the past. Then he mentioned the investment as 50 million. Everyone in the room saw that this was what Evansville had been waiting for. Today was another step to the day of plant production. Enjoy the audio.
Gov. Jim Doyle in his remarks carved out the position of the State of Wisconsin as in the lead---on the point of attack of making Wisconsin the nation's leader in alternative fuels. He spoke of the committment of replacing the Mideast with the Midwest as the source of our energy.
If there was a key word in the speech of Gov. Doyle it was the word "committment." The state of Wisconsin will stand side by side with communities as they work to develop these fuel alternatives-----and he brought along a check for some of the infrastructure needed to upgrade Hwy M. The question of this infrastructure improvement and its costs were one on the lingering questions to be answered. So----committment and check. Two big words. A big beginning for Evansville and Wisconsin.
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