by Amy McCullough Published: February 3,2012
Tags: Alberta Investment Management Corporation, Artis Capital Management, Biofuels Digest, CNBC, Columbus Mississippi, Fred Cannon, Frontier Capital Management Company, Gov. Haley Barbour, KIOR, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Development Authority, Mississippi Technology Alliance, NASDAQ, Newton County, Pointe Innovation, Securities and Exchange Commission, Strategic Biomass Solutions, Sumesh Arora, Texas, Vinod Khosla, William Blair & Company
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 [...] [...]
by Ross Reily Published: September 13,2011
Tags: agriculture, banking and finance, Baxter Laboratories, Bolivar County, Calisolar, CLEVELAND, Coahoma County, construction, Delta Revitalization Task Force, DeSoto County, education, employment, environment, federal government, Greenville, Greenville Bridge, HCL Cleantech, healthcare, higher education, House Bill 1034, Issaquena County, jobs, KIOR, Leflore County, manufacturing, Memphis, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Mississippi Delta, municipal government, oil spill, publicly traded company, real estate, retail, Riverbend Crossing, Sharkey County, Soladigm, state agency, Stion, Sunflower County, Tallahatchie County, tourism, Twin Creeks, unemployment, utilities, VICKSBURG, Washington County, Weather
The Mississippi Delta continues to flounder as unemployment figures average around 18 percent for the 12 counties between Vicksburg and Memphis. Yet, there have been many jobs announcements in the years of the Barbour administration, but very few have had anything to do with the Mississippi Delta. In this latest barrage of economic development announcements, [...] [...]
Since the mid-1990s, Mississippi’s logging industry has been sawed to a fraction of what it was. Perhaps no better illustration of that comes in the latest employment figures for the industry included in a report by the Mississippi Institute for Forest Inventory. In 1996, the industry employed 125,000 people, according to the report. By 2008, [...] [...]
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 [...] [...]
by Amy McCullough Published: January 23,2011
Tags: beef plant, clawbacks, Edward L. Glaeser, Gov. Haley Barbour, GREEN ENERGY, Kathy Gelston, Khosla Ventures, KIOR, Marianne Hill, Mississippi Development Authority, Soladigm, solar, Stion, Tate Reeves
See related Feb. 4 Business Blog post, ‘Haley Barbour and Khosla Ventures’ and Feb. 11 post, ‘WSJ: Learned from Khosla-backed energy startups that tanked.’ State leaders agree that affordable and reliable energy is essential for Mississippi’s future economic growth. Gov. Haley Barbour has said his energy policy is “more of it” and has aggressively promoted [...] [...]
BlueFire reached deal to build in Fulton Biomass-rich Mississippi landed two major projects this year. In September, BlueFire Renewables, looking to build an ethanol plant in Fulton, reached two milestone agreements (MBJ Online, Sept. 21, “BlueFire signs ethanol agreement with TBF;” and, MBJ Online, Sept. 27, “BlueFire signs feedstock contract with Alabama company”). The following [...] [...]
by Stephen McDill Published: October 23,2010
Tags: Barack Obama, Deepwater Horizon, drilling moratorium, EPA, fossil fuels, GOP, Gregg Harper, Kemper County, Ken Salazar, KIOR, lignite plant, oil & gas
U.S. Rep. Gregg Harper speaks to the 2010 annual business meeting of the U.S. Oil & Gas Association at the King Edward Hotel in Jackson. [...]
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 [...] [...]
JACKSON- Gov. Haley Barbour announces that Kior, a biofuel company based in Houston, Tex., wants to build a plant at the Port of Columbus that will use technology and other groundbreaking processes to convert wood and wood products into oil. [...]
Barbour unveils ‘revolutionary’ biofuel project The areas around Columbus, Bude and Newton County have lots of timber. A Houston, Texas-based biofuel company hopes to put it to good use. Gov. Haley Barbour announced last Thursday that Kior is building facilities in each of those areas that will convert biomass — in this case, wood products [...] [...]
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