Ethanol plant won’t come to county

A deadline quietly came and went this week — and the end result is the Emerald City Ethanol plant, which was to be built northeast of the Harvey County Transfer Station, will not become part of the landscape.

According to an update given by Mickey Fornaro-Dean during Wednesday’s meeting of the Harvey County Economic Development Council board, the company pulled the project Oct. 3 and did not renew an Oct. 20 option on land near the now-closed county landfill.

“There are just an awful lot of factors at play here,” Dean told the board. “There is still some interest there, but for now, they have walked away.”