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State lawmakers approve Calisolar incentives package - The Dispatch - 0 views

  • John T. Correnti, former CEO of SeverCorr (now Severstal) of Columbus, has served as chairman of the company''s board of directors since 2010 and reportedly has maintained close ties with Mississippi. The company has been in negotiations with Ohio officials since April, but the deal fell through in July when company representatives told the Mansfield News Journal in Mansfield, Ohio, that they were unable to meet a September construction deadline to qualify for a $275 million federal loan guarantee. Higgins said Lowndes County''s ability to meet Calisolar''s high power needs (nearly 170 MW of power, or roughly 40 MW more than the entire city of Columbus), along with Mississippi''s status as a right-to-work (non-union) state and the willingness of legislators to pass an attractive incentive package, may have tipped the balance in the Magnolia State''s favor.
  • "The reason we''re coming here, and I''m going to be frank, is the Mississippi farm boys and the farm girls," Correnti said, according to The AP. "I wouldn''t trade a Mississippi farm boy or farm girl for any Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, South American.
  • AP reports that details of Mississippi''s incentive package include a $59.5 million loan for the building and equipment, with Lowndes County retaining ownership of the building and leasing it to them. The state is also providing $15.75 million for infrastructure and workforce training.
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  • According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the state''s unemployment rate was 11.1 percent for July, and Lowndes County''s unemployment rate was 12.4 percent. The national unemployment rate is 9.1 percent, or approximately 14 million people.
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Solar company to create 951 jobs in Golden Triangle - The Dispatch - 0 views

  • which plans to locate in the Lowndes County industrial park. State Sen. Terry Brown, R-Columbus, told The Associated Press that the new jobs could pay between $40,000 and $50,000 per year.
  • An additional $100 million package is being considered for HCL CleanTech, a bio-technology company, which plans to build its headquarters in Olive Branch and construct a research and development center in Grenada. Three additional plants would be located in Booneville, Hattiesburg and Natchez. That project would create 800 jobs with an average salary of $67,000 plus benefits.
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      Always wondered about the Clean Tech and NC reference
  • The Link has been in talks with Calisolar since Aug. 27, 2010
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  • east of Industrial Park Road, directly behind Mitchell Beer Distributing, on 250-260 acres, said Joe Higgins, CEO of the Columbus-Lowndes Development Link
  • The facility will use around 170 MW of power, about 40 MW more than the entire city of Columbus. In comparison, Severstal uses about three times the entire city.
  • Higgins said the plant will take about a year and a half to build and will have "a tremendous impact
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European investors probably won't build steel plant in Ohio | The Columbus Dispatch - 0 views

  • The group, Steel Development, will now turn to about four other states to the south and west, Stickler said.
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      This BUNK has been going on since early 2008...Same result...Different State
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