WIGGINS — About a dozen residents expressed their concerns at a public meeting regarding a proposed rubbish site. Thursday’s meeting was hosted by the Pine Belt Regional Solid Waste Management Authority. Neighbors of the City Bridge Road property spoke about their concerns for the environment and questioned whether the location and size of the 15-acre [...] [...]
Mississippi’s two wood pellets manufacturers are finding a warm reception for their products in Europe. Used as alternative energy in residential, institutional and industrial applications, this biofuel has the EPA’s approval, creates less carbon than other types of fuel and is more efficient than burning cord wood. The state’s two wood pellets plants are located [...] [...]
WIGGINS — Enviva LP, which sells wood pellets to a European electrical utility, has acquired a controlling interest in a Wiggins, Miss., pellet plant. Terms were not disclosed. Enviva, a Richmond, Va.-based manufacturer of biomass fuel, tells the Mobile Press-Register that it will expand the former Piney Woods Pellets plant from its current 50,000 tons [...] [...]
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