A local company with a plan to change waste into energy received funding to get a bio diesel plant up and running.

Four million dollars in grant money is the first step in building the bio-diesel plant on Louisiana soil.

The state of the art technology used at sustainable fuels will produce five million gallons of biodiesel fuel annually. And, that's just by using waste products.

Discarded vegetable oil, brown grease, and soy oil will be formulated into bio-diesel fuel.

The four million dollar grant was provided by UDSA Rural Development out of Alexandria.

The plant is expected to be running at the port of Saint Mary by mid 2009.

Alexandra Lewis