If green jobs create air pollution are they still green?

A Pennsylvania company announced today that it has picked a site in Montgomery County, south of Greensboro, for its third North Carolina power plant that will generate electricity using poultry droppings.

Fibrowatt wants to build the plant near Biscoe. Fibrowatt has previously announced plans to build similar power plants in Sampson and Surry counties.

If the company wins approval, it wants to begin construction of the Montgomery plant next year and open it in 2012. The new plant will employ as many as 100 workers and generate up to 55 megawatts of energy, enough energy to power more than 40,000 homes.

Fibrowatt opened the nation’s first poultry litter-fueled power plant in Minnesota in 2007.

In Surry County, residents are organizing a fight to derail the proposed plant, along the Yadkin River near Elkin. Critics have questioned how much air pollution the plants will produce.

Source: Company wants to open power plant near Greensboro