Natchez hopes 2011 the year Rentech gets off the ground
by Amy McCullough
Published: March 13,2011
Tags: Dennis Corn, MBJ FEATURE, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, Mississippi Development Authority, Prevention of Significant Deterioration, Rentec
Since 2006, Rentech has promised to be the Nissan of the Natchez area, providing more than 2,000 jobs, if only they can get it started. Rentech is actually the name of a California-based company that plans to build a clean fuel manufacturing plant in Mississippi. The facility would gasify coal and petroleum coke to produce [...]
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