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Plant yet to come out of ground; company maintains commitment

Associated Press — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:40:51 +0000

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 [...]

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MSU professor removes corn’s fiber

Amy McCullough — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:00:27 +0000

A Mississippi State University professor has found a unique way to remove fiber from corn and has filed for a patent for the process called Elusieve. Dr. Radhakrishnan Srinivasan of the MSU Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering invented Elusieve with Dr. Vijay Singh of the University of Illinois. The process is valuable for efficiency [...]

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Senate votes to kill ethanol subsidy

Amy McCullough — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 20:04:20 +0000

WASHINGTON — The Senate’s 73-to-27 vote to wipe out a $5 billion tax credit for U.S. ethanol producers may be largely symbolic. The Senate approved an amendment to end the 45-cent-a-gallon subsidy the government gives refiners and the 54-cent-per-gallon tariff on imported ethanol from Brazil and other countries. The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, [...]

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Subsidies for ethanol fuel a hot debate

Becky Gillette — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 06:00:37 +0000

Subsidies and other incentives to use ethanol made from corn are coming under increased scrutiny both because of the costs during a time when many vital government programs are being cut to reduce deficit spending, and because the subsidies tend to pit one ag interest against another. Sen. Thad Cochran told the Mississippi Business Journal [...]

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Enerkem raises $60 million for Pontotoc plant

MBJ Staff — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:38:17 +0000

From staff reports CHICAGO — Enerkem Inc., a leading waste-to-biofuels and chemicals company based in Canada, announced today an additional $60 million in financing for its Pontotoc, Mississippi plant, on which the company expects to break ground later this year. The plant will be located within the Three Rivers Landfill and convert trash to methanol [...]

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Enerkem gets loan guarantee for Pontotoc plant

Wally Northway — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:15:49 +0000

PONTOTOC — Enerkem Inc. announced that Enerkem Corporation, its wholly-owned U.S. affiliate, has obtained a conditional commitment for an $80-million loan guarantee by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the construction of its waste-to-biofuels (ethanol) project in Pontotoc. The loan guarantee is part of the USDA 9003 Biorefinery Assistance Program and follows an award [...]

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Fulton biomass plant construction contract signed

Amy McCullough — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:03:48 +0000

FULTON–California-based BlueFire Renewables Inc. has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its planned cellulosic ethanol facility in Fulton. The facility will be engineered and built by Wanzek Construction Inc., a subsidiary of MasTec Inc., for $296 million, which includes an approximately $100 million biomass power plant as part of the facility. The [...]

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DOE approves BlueFire Ethanol’s application

Wally Northway — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:01:43 +0000

FULTON — BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc. announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) has determined that BlueFire Ethanol has met the requirements necessary for Phase I of the application process and that the company has been invited to continue on to Phase II for the financing of its Fulton project. The loan guarantee pursuant to [...]

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Enerkem, BlueFire awarded stimulus funding

Wally Northway — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:07:02 +0000

PONTOTOC and FULTON — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have selected 19 integrated biorefinery projects to receive up to $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to accelerate the construction and operation of pilot, demonstration, and commercial scale facilities. The projects – in 15 states – [...]

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BlueFire releases earnings statement

Wally Northway — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:39:40 +0000

FULTON — BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc., which is proposing to build an ethanol refinery in Fulton, announced year-to-date income of approximately $4.11 million. Income sources for this period included Department of Energy reimbursement, various consulting fees and Solazyme Inc. sugar sales. “2009 has been a dynamic year for BlueFire Ethanol and we expect this momentum [...]

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