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Article: Biomass facility brewing in Simpson County. (Balancing Economics and Environment?).
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- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 10, 2002
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MAGEE -- If funding can be secured, the state's first biomass facility could be under construction in Simpson County by September 2004.
The $130-million biomass facility, patterned after the Thetford Power Station in the U.K., the world's largest biomass facility, would burn 400,000 tons of poultry litter and other biomass, including forest debris, every year. Located on a 30-acre site in the Simpson County Industrial Park on U.S. 49 in Magee, the facility would be situated near substations owned by Entergy and South Mississippi Electric Power Association.
Roughly 300 jobs would be created during the 18-month construction phase. When complete, ...