Lee Enterprises Adds Professional Grant Writer For Biodiesel Proposals

April 22, 2010 - PRLog -- Biodiesel consulting group, Lee Enterprises of Little Rock, Arkansas, is pleased to announce the addition of Lisa Screeton of Hilton Head, South Carolina, to head the Grants and Government Relations division of the firm.

Lee Enterprises, a nationally recognized biodiesel consulting firm, welcomes Screeton and her many skills to its consulting team.  “I am really pleased to have Lisa on board for several reasons” said Wayne Lee, owner of Lee Enterprises.  “Not only does she have a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, she has a proven track record in securing large grants from federal, private, and institutional sources.  She also has government experience through her time with the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, and that knowledge and those contacts are immeasurable.”    

“With the superb communications technologies currently available, we now live in a global community, and consequently we need to think on a global scale,” said Screeton.  “Gone are the days of insular approaches to natural resources without regard to the future or effects on others,” she said, adding “sustainable alternative fuels for transportation of goods and services across the state, nation, and world must be encouraged.  Biodiesel development is just good business.”  Lee adds that he recently read that once oil hits $125 per barrel, one half of the world’s wealth would be held by the OPEC nations.  “Once we realize what this means, we will realize the urgency of the situation”, he said.  

Both Lee and Screeton agree the benefits of owning a biodiesel business are many.  “The combination of the economy and partisan politics has made for a difficult couple of years” said Lee, “but it does appear that the industry is now headed up in a big way”.  “The more governments and citizens realize that the world’s oil supply is limited, the more the economic advantages of biodiesel fuel become apparent,” said Screeton.  “The future of successful international commerce depends on alternative fuels, and alternative fuels projects often depend on the ability to find available government funding.”    

Lee also noted that Screeton gives the firm a national balance, with consultants on both the East and West coasts, and in the central United States.  He notes that the firm’s fluency in multiple languages also is of vital importance in dealing with international customers.  Last year, Lee Enterprises was selected by APInnovations to market their line of biodiesel products and services. AP Innovations of Stuttgart, Arkansas, is a nationally recognized biodiesel design and engineering company. “With clients on six continents, APInnovations really expands our industry sphere”, said Lee. “The list of services we can provide is really quite extensive, and between our group and our strategic relationships, there really is not much in the biodiesel industry that we cannot do.”

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Lee Enterprises is a biodiesel consulting firm specializing in project management, feasibility studies, business plans, and assistance with planning, market analysis, site evaluation, feedstock selection and procurement, process technology, evaluation, offtake distribution, financing, grants and funding, capital budgeting, personnel, and contract negotiations (for feedstock, off-take, transportation, construction, site purchase/lease, and plant management). It also own National Business Brokerage, Inc., a full service business brokerage firm specializing in the buying and selling of biodiesel plants. Lee Enterprises, 1503 East Kiehl Ave., Sherwood, AR 72120. (501) 833-8511. www.lee-enterprises.com