James Stoppert, president of Cargill Dow Polymers, is hoping to build a polylactide plant that will start up in 2002 and produce 135, 000 tonnes a year for the textile and food-packaging markets.

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James Stoppert, president of Cargill Dow Polymers, is hoping to build a polylactide plant that will start up in 2002 and produce 300 million pounds a year for the textile and food-packaging markets.

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It also said it wanted to build a manufacturing plant in Scotland, creating up to 500 direct jobs and 1, 000 supply-side jobs.

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And when a business showed up with plans to build a new solar plant, hundreds of local workers got jobs because of it.

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Drilling rigs are 40m (130ft) high, the plant would take 12 months to build and take up an acre during that time and half an acre after.

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Last September, 30 people died in an explosion at a Pemex gas plant in northern Mexico, thought to have been caused by a build-up of gas.

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And he helped implement PlaNYC, a long-term scheme to build houses for up to 1m New Yorkers, link them to transport, clean up brownfields, plant 1m trees and improve air and water across the five boroughs.

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Last September's deadly blast at a gas plant near the northern town of Reynosa is thought to have been caused by a build-up of gas.

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"You don't have to build a 1, 000- or 1, 500-megawatt power plant and hope that demand catches up, " said Genoa, the NEI's senior director of policy development.

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