WIREGRASS POWER, LLC(VLCIA is the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority. Brad Lofton is its executive director.)The project should be approved and issued an air quality operating permit in the next 14 days, according to Lofton. A power purchase agreement should also be complete by June 1, 2010. The VLCIA granted an eight month extension for the project to begin construction.
We know from previous reports that this wood and sewage sludge incinerator is expected to produce a maximum of 25 long-term jobs. Many questions were asked at the air quality hearing about particulates, CO2, mercury, and other pollutants. The answers ranged from "we don't monitor that" to
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PROJECT EARTHNow that sounds like a more beneficial project.The project is to construct a 700,000-square-foot vehicle manufacturing facility to build hybrid vehicles, which would create about 450 to 600 new jobs. A site/facility conceptual plan was given to the site prospect’s vice president of operations/supply chain management and to a regional construction services company.
The VLCIA will meet with the vice president of the regional construction services company today to determine where the manufacturing/assembly plant should be located in the Southeast region of the United States.
“We have a specific project we want to present,” Brad Lofton, executive director, said. “(Hopefully) we’ll be in a better position to win that project after we meet him.”
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