Haley Barbour, Mississippi governor reads my blog. Alabama legislators - not so much. The regular reader will remember that one of my off-the-wall ideas was a wood chip processing facility for District 6 to put some people to work. Work in a district where we have better (worse?) than 17 % unemployment in many areas.
Today Haley Barbour called a special session of the Mississippi Legislature to ask for $45 million in bond money, plus tax breaks, for a biofuels company; $4 million for related work force training; and $1 million for research to be conducted at Mississippi State University
The biofuels company, he said in a news release that the project would generate $85 million in wages and purchasing inside Mississippi and would create 1,000 jobs through the company and suppliers. The company would use waste wood and wood products as raw materials and convert the energy to fuel or electricity. The exact location of the facility is not yet known but I am told that It might be near Columbus just across the Alabama line. Less than 100 miles from one of those high unemployment areas I mentioned above.
Why Mississippi and not in Alabama?
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