BlueFire confirms DOE-backed Mecca project on schedule; Lancaster project delayed to Q1 2009

In California, BlueFire Ethanol described for shareholders, in its annual letter, the delays in its BlueFire Ethanol Lancaster project, but confirmed that the BlueFire Mecca project is still on schedule in its permitting and design phase. The Mecca project received $40 million in DOE funds as one of four demonstration-scale cellulosic ethanol supported by large-scale DOE grants. The company confirmed that disruption in the capital markets, as well as time spent overcoming an appeal against the company’s conditional use permit, combined with high materials prices in the 2nd half of the year. contributed to the Lancaster project delay.

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