Unfinished E85 Ethanol plant in Nebraska being dismantled, report says

In Nebraska, local observers say that the E85 Ethanol plant in Wahoo has workers cutting up equipment that was recently welded, in what locals say is a sure sigh that the project is dead. Construction is still proceeding on a distillers grains storage unit, but workers on that project say that they are leaving the project after that unit is completed.

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