C-M Gas vies for lucrative TK contract
By Jim Cox Editor & Publisher

The mayors of Grove Hill, Jackson and Thomasville were at the groundbreaking for the new ThyssenKrupp steel mill in Calvert last Friday along with the threeman management team of Clarke-Mobile Counties Gas District. They weren't there just to socialize. Clarke-Mobile is vying for the natural gas business for the $3.7 billion plant.

The three municipalities own the public utility and its mayors serve as its directors. The municipalities share profits generated by Clarke-Mobile.

The ThyssenKrupp account could mean a lot of money in revenues for Clarke- Mobile and, in turn, the three municipalities, the mayors acknowledged.

The ThyssenKrupp complex will include a hot strip mill to process slabs of raw steel from ThyssenKrupp's new steel plant in Brazil. It will also feature cold rolling and hot-dip coating capacities for high quality end products of flat carbon steel.

A company news release states, "The plant will employ the most technologically advanced protection measures. It will use cleanburning natural gas and electricity- not coal- to fire its process heaters and furnaces."

Alabama Power offered substantial discounts on electricity to help lure ThyssenKrupp to the state.

"We've been involved in this [the ThyssenKrupp project] since day one because we [Clarke- Mobile Gas] had a transmission line that came right across the property that had to be moved," Jackson Mayor Richard Long explained at last Friday's groundbreaking.

The mayors and the management team- Al Bean, C. J. Arnold and Tommy Horsley- have made trips to New York recently to "lay the groundwork," as Mayor Sheldon Day previously described it, for a possible deal with ThyssenKrupp.

C. J. Arnold said earlier that negotiations with Thyssen- Krupp for supplying the plant's natural gas needs were going well. "I feel good about us serving the plant," he said.

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