Meigs county jobs: Good news

Ohio EPA approves water quality certification for AMP-Ohio

"POMEROY — Ohio EPA has approved a water quality certification for AMP-Ohio’s planned power plant and associated structures located in Letart Falls (Meigs County)."

Gatling investing $75 million in mine facility

"Hatcher gave Chamber members an update on the project which may see coal on the ground by the end of this week or end of January. Hatcher added there are already around 100 people working at the site and he expected around 200 total would be on the job by the first of July. There are currently 30 coal miners on site. "

A depression? Hardly.

You can tell the economy is not as bad as the media and pandering politicians say. If it were, those protesting new jobs would be shouted down. A new plant creating new jobs with almost no emissions, what else do they want?

If the economy were really that bad, there would be folks there asking for jobs.

Marietta Times story

"Members of the Waterford community expressed their concerns Tuesday over a proposed high-purity silicon processing plant planned by Solsil Inc., a sister company of Globe Metallurgical Inc.
"The amount of pollution being put into the air, how do you know how that will affect the quality of life for the people in this area?" asked Linda See, who lives near the site being considered by the company."

OEPA pursues action against Marietta Industrial Enterprises

I know the OPEA works with companies towards good results. They keep in mind that we need to keep businesses in business. I wonder sometimes however, just how would the Chinese handle a company like this? Would they even care? We keep adding costs and requirements on our businesses, then wonder why they shut down and move elsewhere.

http://mariettaregister.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=698&Itemid=1

"The director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is ordering a business operating on State Route 7 near Marietta to test their emissions for manganese and provide the state with information about its processes.....The OEPA Director is also insisting on the testing of manganese emissions (in terms of pounds per hour) and demonstrated compliance with set emissions limitations within 90 days."

"MIE president Scott Elliott said in an interview on Monday that the company doesn't handle manganese and hasn't handled manganese for years.
"We don't even handle manganese anymore. We haven't handled manganese for three years," he said. "So there's no chance that we do not report manganese emissions because we don't have them."