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Aug 3, 2024, 5:57:25 PM8/3/24

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Optimized Process Designs, an affiliate company of Koch Engineered Solutions, has signed a definitive Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) agreement with Fidelis New Energy for its renewable fuels processing facility along the Port of Greater Baton Rouge

The EPC firm will handle construction on the Grn Facility and related infrastructure for supporting the GigaSystem carbon negative renewable fuels facility. The GigaSystem uses Carbon Capture and Sequestration with Carbon Negative Power and facilitates the production of carbon negative renewable fuels.

The biofuels facility is expected to be capable of producing one billion gallons of biofuels and the equivalent of 1,000 MW in electrolyzer-generated hydrogen. Hydrogen does not emit carbon and is seen as creating carbon-negative renewable fuels when combined with carbon capture.

If not for the dozen or so protesters waving anti-Koch signs at the corner of Frank Sinatra Drive and Highway 111, most motorists would've never known that atop the hill at the Ritz-Carlton Resort, two of America's wealthiest men were gathering for the weekend with high profile Republican politicians and donors.

The low-key gathering of protesters was much smaller than the one in 2011 that attracted hundreds of demonstrators outside the Rancho Las Palmas resort on Bob Hope Drive and a large showing of law enforcement officials in riot gear. Police later said they were there to protect federal judges at the resort.

The only police presence Saturday morning was one police car parked at the Rancho Mirage City Hall entrance off Frank Sinatra Drive. That entrance was closed off, so the only entrance to city hall was off Highway 111.

U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida, along with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, are among those expected to attend the gathering, which will include an hourlong online panel discussion with the three at 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

The brothers, though, have long defended their annual desert gathering, with a spokesman in 2011 saying "attendees discuss solutions to our most pressing issues and strategies to promote policies that will help grow our economy, foster free enterprise and create American jobs."

Attorney and Rancho Mirage resident Michael Harrington said he is fine with the Koch brothers' conference in town, but is not OK with some of the more crude protest signs that for example read "Koch suckers."