Proposed Synergen ammonia plant hits roadblock

Joint Planning Commission denies CUP application 
 

  • Hamilton County resident Tina Oswald, center, testifies before the county’s Joint Planning & Zoning Commission last Tuesday night in opposition to the granting of a conditional use permit for the building of a Synergen Green Energy ammonia production plant west of Aurora. Oswald and others said they were concerned about the plant’s impact on domestic water wells in the area.
    Hamilton County resident Tina Oswald, center, testifies before the county’s Joint Planning & Zoning Commission last Tuesday night in opposition to the granting of a conditional use permit for the building of a Synergen Green Energy ammonia production plant west of Aurora. Oswald and others said they were concerned about the plant’s impact on domestic water wells in the area.
    Only eight weeks after the proposed Synergen Green Energy ammonia plant first came to the attention of the general public in Hamilton County, the project has hit a regulatory snag. At the end of a nearly three hour meeting of the county’s Joint Planning and Zoning Commission held last Tuesday night, the commission voted 10-1 against recommending a conditional use permit (CUP) for the...

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