Mississippi Business Journal » wood pellet 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 Port lets dredging contract, clearing way for wood pellets http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/15/port-lets-dredging-contract-clearing-way-for-wood-pellets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=port-lets-dredging-contract-clearing-way-for-wood-pellets http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/15/port-lets-dredging-contract-clearing-way-for-wood-pellets/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 11:22:24 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=74768 PASCAGOULA — Port of Pascagoula commissioners have approved a $1.5-million dredging project to prepare a Bayou Casotte berth for a specialized wood pellet exporting facility. The board awarded the $1.47 million contract to C. F. Bean, LLC for the dredging, testing, transporting and disposing of about 45,000 cubic yards of silts around Terminals E and [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/15/port-lets-dredging-contract-clearing-way-for-wood-pellets/feed/ 0 Port of Pascagoula’s wood pellet facility gets final funding piece http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/10/port-of-pascagoulas-wood-pellet-facility-gets-final-funding-piece/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=port-of-pascagoulas-wood-pellet-facility-gets-final-funding-piece http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/10/port-of-pascagoulas-wood-pellet-facility-gets-final-funding-piece/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 20:05:29 +0000 Clay Chandler http://msbusiness.com/?p=74634 The Port of Pascagoula has gotten the last funding piece in place for its wood pellet facility. The $196 million bond bill approved during the legislative session that ended in April includes $10 million that will round out the money needed for the $30 million project. The facility will be built along two terminals on [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/10/port-of-pascagoulas-wood-pellet-facility-gets-final-funding-piece/feed/ 0 Town signs lease deal with biofuels company http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/05/town-signs-lease-deal-with-biofuels-company/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=town-signs-lease-deal-with-biofuels-company http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/05/town-signs-lease-deal-with-biofuels-company/#comments Sun, 05 May 2013 18:38:37 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=74323 GLOSTER — The town of Gloster has signed a lease with Drax Biomass International for its Amite BioEnergy wood pellet plant. The Enterprise-Journal reports that the 15-year lease calls for the company to pay the town $8,000 per year for the first 10 years and $9,000 for the next five. There are options to continue [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/05/05/town-signs-lease-deal-with-biofuels-company/feed/ 0 Energy company to expand one pellet plant, build another http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/02/energy-company-to-expand-one-pellet-plant-build-another/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=energy-company-to-expand-one-pellet-plant-build-another http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/02/energy-company-to-expand-one-pellet-plant-build-another/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:29:22 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=72678 LUCEDALE and COPIAH COUNTY— Gulf Coast Renewable Energy is ramping up plans for a wood pellet plant in Lucedale, and plans to build another plant just as big in Copiah County. The Mississippi Press reports that the company says it now plans to double the plant’s capacity to 320,000 metric tons of pellets a year [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/04/02/energy-company-to-expand-one-pellet-plant-build-another/feed/ 0 County suing wood pellet company for breach of contract http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/06/county-suing-wood-pellet-company-for-breach-of-contract/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=county-suing-wood-pellet-company-for-breach-of-contract http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/06/county-suing-wood-pellet-company-for-breach-of-contract/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:50:10 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=60749 MAGNOLIA — An Aug. 13 trial date has been set in U.S. District Court in Jackson in a breach-of-contract lawsuit by Pike County against a wood pellet company that never built a promised mill. The Enterprise-Journal reports Indeck Energy Services of Buffalo Grove, Ill., bought land from Pike County in 2008 with plans to build [...]

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