The plant, which will have potential to produce 15mn gallons a year of biodiesel, will be located in an agricultural reserve west of Delray Beach, which is north of Fort Lauderdale along the Atlantic Ocean.
Plans call for bringing the facility online in 2011. Ag-Oil estimates the refinery and plantation will create 128 direct jobs and 915 indirect jobs.
Gevinson, whose primary business is real estate, says she bought 103 acres of land in the reserve and will pay farmers to grow jatropha, an inedible oilseed that thrives in hot climates in Africa, Asia and parts of Latin America.
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