Mississippi Business Journal » Fred Cannon http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 21 May 2013 19:01:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 ANALYSIS — Mississippi has big money invested in KiOR’s financially challenged project http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/03/analysis-%e2%80%94-mississippi-has-big-money-invested-in-kiors-financially-challenged-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=analysis-%25e2%2580%2594-mississippi-has-big-money-invested-in-kiors-financially-challenged-project http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/03/analysis-%e2%80%94-mississippi-has-big-money-invested-in-kiors-financially-challenged-project/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:01:02 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/?p=51689 The eyes of the international renewable-fuels community are fixed on KiOR (NASDAQ:KIOR), a Texas-based company in which Mississippi has a large stake — specifically a $75 million interest-free loan administered by the Mississippi Development Authority. KiOR plans to build five plants in Mississippi that should convert wood chips to renewable crude through a process called [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/03/analysis-%e2%80%94-mississippi-has-big-money-invested-in-kiors-financially-challenged-project/feed/ 0 Plenty of timber, but no deal yet for KiOR http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/02/27/plenty-of-timber-but-no-deal-yet-for-kior/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=plenty-of-timber-but-no-deal-yet-for-kior http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/02/27/plenty-of-timber-but-no-deal-yet-for-kior/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:00:59 +0000 Clay Chandler http://msbusiness.com/?p=37535 When Houston, Texas-based KiOR announced late last summer that it planned to build at least biomass-to-crude oil facilities in Mississippi, CEO Fred Cannon said the company was “in final negotiations” with a refinery to purchase and refine the product produced here. A KiOR spokesman said in an email to the Mississippi Business Journal last week [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/02/27/plenty-of-timber-but-no-deal-yet-for-kior/feed/ 0 Barbour: Biomass deal ‘not too good to be true’ http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/09/05/barbour-biomass-deal-%e2%80%98not-too-good-to-be-true%e2%80%99/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=barbour-biomass-deal-%25e2%2580%2598not-too-good-to-be-true%25e2%2580%2599 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/09/05/barbour-biomass-deal-%e2%80%98not-too-good-to-be-true%e2%80%99/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:00:07 +0000 Clay Chandler http://msbusiness.com/?p=29937 State education researchers say technology process is possible but has a lot of issues to overcome The concept of biofuel has been around since World War II, when Adolf Hitler ordered his top scientists to explore and develop new ways to power German war machines. The concept of commercializing renewable crude oil, or re-crude, which [...]

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