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Wood pellet facility could come to Morehead City port

 
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An agreement announced today could bring a wood pellet export facility to the Morehead City port.
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An agreement announced today (Thursday) could bring a wood pellet export facility to the Morehead City port. George Olsen has more.

A press release from the state Department of Transportation says an agreement has been reached between the State Ports Authority and WoodFuels LLC that could allow construction of a wood pellet export facility in Morehead City. The proposed $25 million export facility would receive, store and load wood pellets for European export. The facility would receive its first pellets for shipment in late 2014. DOT says on average the 20-year agreement would add $840,000 annually in ports operating revenue and would support at least 150 direct and indirect jobs in the state. I’m George Olsen.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.