An employee of Mears Group Inc., the pipeline contractor installing Florida City Gas’ natural gas distribution system in Sebastian, inspects a recently installed valve along Sebastian Boulevard.
When Fellsmere’s Florida Organic Aquaculture announced on April 25 that their first crop of 500 million colossal, sushi-grade shrimp was nearly ready to go to market, they had a lot of people to thank for their success. There were the political leaders of Fellsmere who fought steadily to attract new job-creating businesses to the area, there were the scientists who helped perfect the organic-growing techniques, and there were the restaurants and seafood wholesalers who cooperated in creating a market for this new gourmet product.
But the work of all of these contributors would have made little difference if it were not for the just-in-time arrival of a new, low-cost fuel source to help keep the shrimp “raceways” used to grow out the product at the required temperature. That energy source was natural gas; and it was brought to Fellsmere through the investment and knowhow of Florida City Gas, a division of the publicly traded AGL Resources.
Read the entire article in the July 2014 issue
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