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October 01, 2009
Plant In Kemper County Would Create Hundreds Of JobsThe Jackson Clarion Ledger reports, “A proposed $2.2 billion Mississippi Power plant that would convert lignite coal into electricity has the potential to bring about 300 jobs to” Kemper County which has “an unemployment rate of 10.6 percent.” At its peak, the facility's “construction could provide as many as 1,000 jobs. If started next year, the plant could be finished by 2014.”
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September 30, 2009
EPRI Joins CCS Efforts At Mountaineer PlantGreenwire reports that the Electric Power Research Institute, a research group funded by investor-owned utilities, announced Tuesday that “it would work with American Electric Power Co. Inc. and Alstom Power to validate the carbon capture process used at AEP's Mountaineer Plant, which could be the first pulverized coal-fired power plant to be retrofitted to capture CO2 and inject and store it in a rock formation deep underground.”
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September 30, 2009
Report Urges Clean Energy Development For Midwestern StatesThe Associated Press reports on a study “prepared for a meeting of the Midwestern Governors Association next week in Detroit, acknowledges that the 11-state area will keep relying heavily on coal -- which generates nearly three-fourths of its electricity -- long into the future.” However, the report “calls for stepped-up development of technology that captures the emission of carbon dioxide from burning coal and stores it underground instead of releasing it into the atmosphere.”
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September 29, 2009
Norfolk Southern Unveils Zero Emissions, Electric LocomotiveThe AP reports that “rail hauler Norfolk Southern Corp. on Monday unveiled a battery-powered prototype locomotive for use in its Pennsylvania rail yard,” which the company developed “in partnership with the Energy Department, the Federal Railroad Administration, and Pennsylvania State University.”
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September 29, 2009
Local Group Supports Proposed Coal Mine In IllinoisThe Canton (IL) Daily Ledger reports, under the headline “Citizens’ group eager to see coal mining begin near Canton,” that members of the Fulton County Citizens for Growth said at a recent meeting to discuss the status of a proposed coal mine that “they are eager to see mining begin at the site that has been owned by mining companies since the 1970’s.”
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September 23, 2009
Arch Coal CEO Discusses Coal Use, CCS TechnologyWhen asked in an interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box about increasing the use of renewable energy, Arch Coal CEO Steve Leer said, “coal is the fastest growing fuel we've had for fossil fuels in the United States at 50%, it's enormous. And the scaleability of renewables today are about 2%. We can whittle away at it, but still will be heavily reliant on coal, natural gas and oil.”
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September 22, 2009
World's coal-generated electricity sector riveted by plans at W.Va.'s MountaineerPoking out of the ground near the smokestacks of the Mountaineer power plant here are two wells that look much like those that draw natural gas to the surface. But these are about to do something new: inject a power plant’s carbon dioxide into the earth. The experiment, which the company says could begin in the next few days, is riveting the world’s coal-fired electricity sector, which is under growing pressure to develop technology to capture and store carbon dioxide. Visitors from as far as China and India, which are struggling with their own coal-related pollution, have been trooping through the plant.
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September 22, 2009
Penn. Gov: With CCS "We're Sitting On A Gold Mine."In an interview on CNBC’s Mad Money, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said, “The shale, coal, if we can develop clean coal technology, and I believe we can, we're sitting on a gold mine. [C]lean coal technology has incredible potential to do our electricity and endure our electricity well. It can be [syn] gas to be used in the chemical industry. And it can be non-sulfur diesel fuel when you gasify it. So clean coal has tremendous potential. And I think we can be an exporter of energy if we hit it big on natural gas and we refine clean coal. And what's wrong with that?”
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September 21, 2009
Wyoming Plans Seeks DOE Funds for Commercial-Scale CCS Power PlanThe Casper (WY) Star-Tribune reports that Black Hills Corp., Babcock & Wilcox and Air Liquide Engineering “plan to build the nation’s first commercial-scale carbon capture and sequestration coal-fired power plant in Campbell County,” Wyoming, so they have “filed an application to the US Department of Energy seeking clean-coal technology funding available under the agency’s restructured FutureGen project.”
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September 19, 2009
Pittsburgh CCS Research Center Expected to Receive State FundingThe Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported that 26th annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference began Sunday, which “will bring together more than 400 attendees representing 26 countries, many of them the foremost experts in their country in fossil fuel research and environmental policy.”
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