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Mirant Halts Work on $250M Energy Plant

LONGVIEW, WA-Mirant Corp. stops construction on a $250-million power plant here that got underway in October and is about 34% complete. On 11 acres in the City of Longview's Mint Farm industrial Park, the 270-megawatt plant was scheduled for completion in June 2003.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on August 12, 2002

LONGVIEW, WA-Mirant Corp. has halted construction last week on a $250-million energy plant at the City of Longview’s Mint Farm industrial park.

A subsidiary of Baton Rouge, LA-based Shaw Group Inc., a designer and builder of power plants, says it was notified last week of the work stoppage by its client, Mint Generation LLC, a subsidiary of Mirant Corp.

Under the notice, Mirant will instruct Shaw’s Stone & Webster Inc. over the next few days as to which part of the work may proceed to completion or to a stable point of construction. Shaw says Mirant has indicated that it expects engineering will continue through completion.

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