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Energy company to expand one pellet plant, build another

LUCEDALE and COPIAH COUNTY— Gulf Coast Renewable Energy is ramping up plans for a wood pellet plant in Lucedale, and plans to build another plant just as big in Copiah County. The Mississippi Press reports that the company says it now plans to double the plant’s capacity to 320,000 metric tons of pellets a year [...] [...]

Refinery makes $1M donation to Audubon Society programs

by Associated Press Published: March 21,2013

Tags: charitable giving, crude oil, donate, donation, donor, ecosystem, ecotourism, energy, environment, fuel, gasoline, petroleum, REFINERY, wildlife

PASCAGOULA — The Chevron Pascagoula Refinery is donating $1 million to the Pascagoula River Audubon Center and another National Audubon Society program, the Mississippi Flyway. The Sun Herald reports the majority of the money will go to support operations and educational programs for a new $2 million center, soon to be built on 10 acres [...] [...]

Gulf oil and gas lease sale pulls in $1.2B in bids

by Associated Press Published: March 21,2013

Tags: auction, bid, crude oil, energy, federal agency, federal government, fuel, gasoline, lease, natural gas, offshore drilling, petroleum, sale

GULF OF MEXICO — A nearly 39 million-acre oil and gas lease sale yesterday for the central Gulf of Mexico drew $1.2 billion in high bids by offshore energy producers. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said 52 companies submitted 407 bids on 320 tracts, three to 230 miles off the coasts of Louisiana, Alabama [...] [...]

Salazar to attend federal oil and gas lease sale

by Associated Press Published: March 20,2013

Tags: auction, bid, crude oil, energy, federal agency, federal government, fuel, gasoline, lease, natural gas, offshore drilling, Oil, petroleum, sale

GULF OF MEXICO — U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will be on hand when federal regulators put more than 38 million acres in the central Gulf of Mexico up for bid to offshore energy producers. The sale in New Orleans will begin at 9 a.m. today in the Superdome and include about 7,299 federally-owned drilling [...] [...]

KiOR makes first shipment, reports loss

COLUMBUS — Texas-based KiOR Inc. has reached a milestone with the first shipments of cellulostic diesel from its biofuels production facility in Lowndes County. KiOR president and CEO Fred Cannon says in a statement that the company will focus on achieving “steady state operations” in Columbus. He says KiOR expects to produce between 3 million [...] [...]

State awards county grant for KiOR site work

NATCHEZ — Adams County has received $3.9 million in grants from the state for work on a levee and new water system on the former Belwood County Club property, the future site of KiOR’s Natchez alternative fuel production facility. The Natchez Democrat reports the county initially had sought to borrow the money to partially finance [...] [...]

Senator backs bill aimed at streamlining natural gas exports

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is co-sponsoring legislation to broaden natural gas exports to U.S. allies in order to advance American national security interests. The Expedited LNG for American Allies Act of 2013 (S.192) would require the secretary of energy to allow approve exports of natural gas, including liquefied natural gas (LNG), [...] [...]

Plant yet to come out of ground; company maintains commitment

by Associated Press Published: March 11,2013

Tags: alternative fuel, biofuel, energy, environment, Ethanol, fuel, green, manufacture, plany, REFINERY, sustainablility

PONTOTOC — Four years after announcing plans for an ethanol plant in Pontotoc, a Canadian company has yet to begin construction. Enerkem Inc., of Montreal, remains committed to building the for Enerkem Mississippi Biofuels plant, spokeswoman Annie Pare tells The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal. It’s planned as a $100 million project with 70 employees, with [...] [...]

Supervisors moving forward on bonds for Powersite

by Associated Press Published: March 6,2013

Tags: board of supervisors, bond, county government, electricity, energy, plant, power, site, supervisor

WEST POINT — The board of supervisors has started the process toward issuing up to $10 million in bonds for development of the Prairie Belt Powersite in northern Clay County. The Daily Times Leader reports officials with the Golden Triangle Development LINK had requested that the board be ready to issue bonds when a major [...] [...]

Renewable energy firm to site pellet plant in Pine Belt

by Wally Northway Published: March 6,2013

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LUCEDALE — Gulf Coast Renewable Energy will locate a $25-million wood pellet plant in the industrial park in George County. Company officials met with the board of supervisors to request help with construction of an access road to the site on 40 acres just outside the Lucedale city limits. The project will create about 30 [...] [...]

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