Contract awarded Wanzek to build BlueFire’s first-of-its-kind ethanol plant

A year after announcing that it would build an cellulosic ethanol production facility in Mississippi, BlueFire Renewables Inc. (formerly BlueFire Ethanol Fuels Inc.) has let the contract on the project that carries a price tag of nearly $300 million. Now, California-based BlueFire, which has been working on the Mississippi project since 2007, awaits the federal [...] [...]