Before we could get the announcement posted the Wellsville Area Chamber-of-Commerce President informs us that the annual Citizens of the Year Dinner is sold out. With limited seating available at the WHS Alumni Center it was announced yesterday that the $30/plate dinner tickets were all gone. Word spread fast that John Baardson, owner & president of Baard Energy is the key-note speaker. The Chamber's Randy Allmon said Mr. Baardson will be speaking on Baard's proposed coal-to-liquid plant for the Wellsville area.
That proposed plant has been in the works for nearly three years now. It is expected to cost in excess of $6 billion and take three to four years to complete. The company got all their EPA permits lined up and then the national economy took a nose dive making it difficult to line up financing. Initial ground breaking has been steadily postponed for that reason and from environmentalist's concerns. They hurdled the challenges of the tree huggers and according to sources from other corners it is expected Mr. Baardson will have some good news to give us. Just recently the CC Port Authority (PA) worked out another extension for the land acquisitions. The PA has a loan agreement & a grant to be used for paying property owners where the plant is to go. The deadline to use that financing was Sept. 30 and the PA got another extension to push those deadlines back to the end of the year.
Pictured making the joint announcement September 21 for the Chamber's annual dinner above, from the left, are members Diane Spencer, Erin Orr, PA CEO Tracy Drake, Vickie McCombs, Western Reserve Building Trades President Don Crane, Sheryl Gibson , Randy Allmon and Debbie Koffel.
Chamber President-elect Diane Spencer said nomination forms will be sent to all dues paying Chamber members asking for choices in four divisions. Those divisions are for Woman of the Year, Man of the Year, Community Service Group of the Year and Business of the Year. The top three nominations will then be voted on. Winners will be announced at the October 23rd catered dinner. The dinner will begin with a Social Hour at 5 P.M.
We're keeping our fingers crossed...
ole nib
5 comments:
Exactly how has Baard Energy hurdled any obstacles? They've filed arguments asking the court to delay the hearings because they can't afford to pay their expert witnesses to come testify.
Nachy - Bring your cello & come on up. You can entertain during the Social Hour.
nib
Nachy answered us but it was one of the comments we lost this morning.
Unfortunately Nachy can't make it on the 23rd.
Dern!
nib
I heard tickets are all sold out, anyway...
They cant pay because hypocritical jagoffs like you cry like a little kid with a skinned knee when the Federal Reserve needs to cut down a tree to supply paper to print money.....
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