U.S. EnviroFuels Cancels Plans for Port Manatee Fuel Ethanol Plant

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Privately held ethanol venture United States EnviroFuels, LLC (Riverview, Florida) has cancelled plans to construct a new fuel ethanol plant that was to be located at the Manatee County Port Authority Complex located in Palmetto, Florida. The cancellation was a huge disappointment for the Port Authority and local farmers considering the revenues that the plant would have generated through increased corn shipping and loosing out on a new market for locally grown corn and grains.

The deal hit a snag when an agreement on sub-leasing terms of the property could not be met. U.S. EnviroFuels had also been in talks with port tenant and fuel terminal operator TransMontaigne Partners (Denver, Colorado) to sub-lease 16½ acres of land. Failure to reach agreeing terms on the sub-lease deal is what killed the project.

Plans were to construct an $80 million, 40 million-gallon per year fuel ethanol plant that would utilize locally grown corn and grain feedstocks and the port’s infrastructure and nearby fuel distributor seemed to be a great fit for success. U.S. EnviroFuels is still optimistic they may be able to find a workable situation at the port in the future.

Plans for the company’s other project in Florida are moving forward as intended. A second location eyed by the company that would be suitable for an ethanol plant is in the Port of Tampa. This location will be designed and built by Delta-T (Williamsburg, Virginia). Plans here called for the creation of a 50 million-gallon per year plant that is scheduled to become operational by late 2007.

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