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From an
editorial in the
Wisconsin State Journal:
Wisconsin cannot afford to let a "not in my backyard" reaction to ethanol plants shut down the state's effort to be in the forefront of biofuel development.
That is a lesson Wisconsin communities should learn from the feud that threatens to squelch plans to build an ethanol plant at Sparta.
Not every proposed site is suitable for an ethanol plant. As with most industrial operations, the impacts of ethanol production -- from traffic to odor to increased water use -- mean that finding the right location is important.
Sparta should determine, according to its established procedures, whether to approve a site proposed there by an ethanol plant investor group.
But neither Sparta nor any other community should permit a "not in my backyard" -- NIMBY -- attitude to close its mind to ethanol plants.
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