by Associated Press Published: April 8,2013
Tags: appeal, case, climate, climate change, destruction, flooding, global warming, greenhouse gas, hurricane, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawsuit, legal, rain, storm surge, trial, tropical, Weather, wind
MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — A federal appeals court has agreed to review a three-judge panel’s ruling that a group of Mississippi coastal landowners can sue energy and chemical companies on allegations that linked greenhouse gas emissions to Hurricane Katrina. The lawsuit alleges that greenhouse gas emissions from energy and chemical companies contributed to global warming, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 5,2013
Tags: attorney, bench, contaminate, contamination, court, crude oil, death, disaster, ecosystem, energy, environment, explosion, fatality, fuel, gasoline, hearing, judge, judicial, judiciary, justice, law, lawyer, legal, natural gas, offshore drilling, oil spill, oilrig, payout, petroleum, pollution, restaurant, seafood, settlement, tourism, tourist, vacation, visitor, wildlife
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge has rejected BP’s request to block what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts to businesses who claim the company’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money. Before a hearing today, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier already had upheld court-appointed claims administrator Patrick Juneau’s [...] [...]
KEMPER COUNTY — The Southern Co. has withdrawn plans to seek a federal loan guarantee for the power plant its subsidiary Mississippi Power Co. is building in Kemper County. A spokesman for Atlanta-based Southern says Mississippi Power can borrow money elsewhere at a lower rate than available under the loan from the U.S. Department of [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 2,2013
Tags: agriculture, construction, economic development, employee, employer, energy, environment, expansion, facility, forest, forester, forestry, green, job, plant, renewable energy, tree, wood, wood pellet, work, worker
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 19,2013
Tags: bioenergy, biofuel, COST, energy, environment, expoence, fuel, green, loss, publicly tradedc company, REFINERY, start-up, sustainable enertgy, wood
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 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 14,2013
Tags: construction, county government, economic development, energy, environment, funding, grant, green, infrastructure, job, levee, manufacture, REFINERY, site work, state agency, sustainable energy, water system, work, worker
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 [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: March 11,2013
Tags: bill, defense, energy, export, exporter, exporting, federal government, foreign market, international trade, legislation, legislative, military, natural gas
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), [...] [...]
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