100 Mgy Gulfstream Bioflex Energy corn ethanol set to receive air permit after lawsuit rejected

In Missouri, the controversial 100 Mgy Gulfstream Bioflex Energy corn ethanol plant in Rogersville will receive its air permit from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. The project was delayed by a local resident lawsuit alleging that the project would damage the quality of local groundwater. The lawsuit is pending on appeal after the courts ruled in the company’s favor in May 2007.

The citizens group opposing Gulfstream Bioflex’s proposed $165 million ethanol plant near Rogersville in the southeast part of the state, had annoucned in September that it would appeal the court’s initial ruling in favor of Gulfstream.

Ethanol plant development in Missouri slowed to a standstill at the end of last summer. After boom conditions in recent years, no new plants were submitted or revised permit applications after July 2007, and none of the three pending, approved projects have been built, including Renewable Power of Missouri and Ethanex. The third company, Bootheel Agri-Energy, said it would return equity invested in the company to shareholders, with interest, after the project failed to obtain a required financing commitment by the expiration of the equity offering period.

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