Plant In Kemper County Would Create Hundreds Of Jobs

October 01, 2009

The Jackson Clarion Ledger reports, “A proposed $2.2 billion Mississippi Power plant that would convert lignite coal into electricity has the potential to bring about 300 jobs to” Kemper County which has “an unemployment rate of 10.6 percent.” At its peak, the facility's “construction could provide as many as 1,000 jobs. If started next year, the plant could be finished by 2014.”

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