By Walter F. Roche Jr.
Yara North America, the third participant in a massive industrial project in Midway, TN. has abruptly pulled out of the sometimes controversial project headed up by US Nitrogen LLC.
The withdrawal was made official in a brief letter sent this week to Tennessee environmental officials by Henri Groenen, a Yara vice president. In the letter Groenen said the company was surrendering the two permits the company currently holds, but never really utilized.
The third company on the Midway site, Praxair, remains and both Praxair and US Nitrogen are currently operating. Praxair produces liquefied carbon dioxide, while US Nitrogen manufactures ammonium nitrate.
Yara planned to produce calcium nitrate at the facility and while it obtained state permits never erected a manufacturing facility and submitted annual reports to TDEC stating that operations had yet to begin.
In his letter Groenen thanked TDEC officials for their assistance and cooperation. He offered no explicit explanation for the withdrawal.
"Unfortunately we were not able to greenlight the final investment decision for this project after so many years of diligent work by many people," Groenen wrote in the letter to TDEC's Amanda Davis and other agency officials.
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