by MBJ Staff Published: May 13,2013
Tags: agriculture, Alternative energy, alternative fuel, bioenergy, biofuel, ecosystem, energy, environment, federal agency, federal government, forest, forester, forestry, incenntive, lawmaker, legislative, lumber, marketing, public releations, Senator, sustainable energy, sustainabliity, timber, tree
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is questioning whether a U.S. Department of Agriculture bio-based marketing program amounts to a bias against traditional forest products and whether such policies are fair. Cochran broached the topic at a Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to review the FY2014 budget request for the USDA. The USDA BioPreferred [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: May 10,2013
Tags: agriculture, bioenergy, biofuel, biotech, energy, farm, Farm Bill, farmer, farming, federal government, food, lawmaker, legislative, REFINERY, Senator
AROUND MISSISSIPPI — A group of Mississippi biotechnology companies and state associations have written Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), urging him to support mandatory funding for renewable energy programs in a new Farm Bill. Elevance Renewable Sciences of Natchez and DuPont Corporation, which has operations in Pass Christian and Pascagoula, sent the letter along with supporters [...] [...]
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: February 21,2013
Tags: bioenergy, biofuel, city government, county government, economic development, employer, employere, energy, green, industrial real estate, job, manufacture, plant, REFINERY, site, work, worker
NATCHEZ — Adams County hopes to advertise for bids in April for port improvement construction related to a biofuels project. Elevance Renewable Sciences Inc. announced in 2011 its plans to convert the Delta BioFuels plant into a bio-refinery, in which fuels and other chemicals will be produced from organic matter. The company — which makes [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 5,2012
Tags: bioenergy, construction, contract, contractor, county, elecvtricity, energy, fuel, government, green, infrastructure, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, power, production, REFINERY, sewer, sustainable
NATCHEZ — Adams County supervisors have approved a $522,673 to relocate a sewer line on the former Belwood County Club property, the future site of KiOR’s Natchez alternative fuel production facility. The Natchez Democrat reports the contract went to T.L. Wallace Construction. Board Attorney Scott Slover said the bid was approximately $180,000 below the county’s [...] [...]
STARKVILLE — A waste conversion technology developed at Mississippi State University is moving out of the laboratory and into the marketplace, thanks to a licensing agreement between a Louisiana company and the university’s Office of Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer. The patent-pending process is used to convert waste and synthesis gas to hydrocarbons and other useful [...] [...]
FULTON — BlueFire Renewables Inc. has received all permits to allow start of construction of its first commercial project in Fulton. BlueFire has obtained its final air, wastewater and storm water permits from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) to start construction. Other permits issued related to the project include a wetlands permit from [...] [...]
ABERDEEN — William T. “Tommy” Tacker has been sentenced to 60 months in prison for defrauding the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of $2.8 million in bioenergy subsidy money for a plant in Mississippi. Tacker was convicted in February in federal court in Aberdeen. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports U.S. District Judge Glen H. [...] [...]
ADAMS COUNTY — Rentech Inc. has been named a company of the year by Biofuels Digest for advancement in the commercialization of renewable fuels. Biofuels Digest editor Jim Lane said, “The Digest readership and the editors have been amazed by the progress this year in aviation biofuels in general, and by Rentech in particular. The [...] [...]
FULTON — BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc., a California-based company that is proposing to build an ethanol refinery in Fulton in Northeast Mississippi, has been ranked number 19 on the Biofuels Digest list of the “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy;” the company’s second consecutive year in the top 20. “Having voters rank BlueFire Ethanol among the [...] [...]
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