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In addition to providing construction jobs, the plant will employ about 12 people, including boiler operators and an electrical engineer: all white-collar or well-paid, licensed blue-collar.
There is to be "very little" odor from burning things like dry grain dust. The system has extensive pollution-control devices. An ethanol plant, by contrast, smells like a brewery.
More trucks will come in but fewer will leave with malting byproducts, so the net traffic increase is about 12 per day.
Although testing will be noisy, the plant is not supposed to be. Work has been done to minimize all forms of noise on the Rahr site to help limit annoyance to the nearby neighborhood.
Sources: Koda Energy and Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
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