Ethanol project near Royal to break ground this spring
By Anne Cook
Sunday February 4, 2007
Robert K. O'Daniell
Les Busboom, left, manager of JBS United's Royal elevator, and Reg Ankrom, marketing director of Illini Ethanol, stand on the site of the planned ethanol plant north of Royal.
ROYAL – When Walker Filbert and other Pike County leaders started making plans to build an ethanol plant at Griggsville, the fuel enhancer made from corn was selling for less than $1 a gallon.
But four and a half years later, that price has nearly quadrupled, ethanol is the talk of the market, the Pike County project has expanded to a site at Royal in Champaign County and planners are ready to break ground this spring, after they wrap up a few details, at a 62-acre site just north of the JBS United elevator .
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