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Senator: Is federal bioenergy program undercutting foresters?

MBJ Staff — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:30:33 +0000

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 [...]

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Biotech group sends letter to Cochran urging mandatory funding

MBJ Staff — Fri, 10 May 2013 11:52:13 +0000

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 [...]

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KiOR makes first shipment, reports loss

MBJ Staff — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:21:50 +0000

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 [...]

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Energy companies eyeing sites in Natchez area

Associated Press — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:58:19 +0000

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 [...]

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T.L. Wallace wins infrastructure project at KiOR site

Associated Press — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:12:39 +0000

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 [...]

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Waste conversion process heading to marketplace

For the MBJ — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:26:46 +0000

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 [...]

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MDEQ gives final approval for BlueFire plant

Wally Northway — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:52:08 +0000

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 [...]

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Tacker gets five years for biofuels scam

Associated Press — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:34:13 +0000

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. [...]

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Rentech named one of year’s best

Wally Northway — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:22:49 +0000

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 [...]

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BlueFire makes ’50 Hottest’ list again

Wally Northway — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:42:25 +0000

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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