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September 05, 2009
Clean Coal Company Plans Expansion In North CarolinaThe Charlotte Observer reported that officials from CoaLogix Inc. announced Friday that the company, through its subsidiary SCR-Tech LLC, “plans to open a second manufacturing and research and design site on Steele Creek Road in southwest Charlotte, adding to its facility and 45 employees in western Mecklenburg County,” and creating 61 new jobs.
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September 03, 2009
WVU Wins Federal Grant For Carbon Capture ResearchThe Associated Press reports, “West Virginia University researchers studying how to monitor underground storage sites for greenhouse gases have won a $1.3 million federal grant to keep working. The funds are from the U.S. Department of Energy, but WVU's research is also supported by companies like Pittsburgh-based coal operator CONSOL Energy.”
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September 03, 2009
Va. alters power plant's mercury emissions permitThe Associated Press reports, “Richmond Circuit Judge Margaret Spencer last month sided with environmentalists who objected to the clause and invalidated the permit. She said the state Air Pollution Control Board had given Dominion too much flexibility in complying with the mercury discharge limit. Dominion said it had no objection to removal of the clause.” According to company spokesman Greg Edwards “the DEQ staff was able to do that without air board action.”
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September 01, 2009
Wyoming Receives Funds To Study Carbon SequestrationThe Associated Press reports that the DOE has awarded “a $994,000 grant to the University of Wyoming to develop a regional carbon sequestration technology training center in Laramie,” as part of the “more than $8.4 million in funding was recently approved for seven sequestration technology projects across the country.”
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August 28, 2009
Xcel Utilizes Solar Energy To Update Coal-Fired PlantKJCT-TV reports on its website that Xcel Energy “hopes a new addition to the Cameo[, Colorado] power plant will take clean coal technology to a cleaner level.” Xcel's Energy Supply President David Wilks said of the project, “We're looking at all sorts of options to help us extend the lives of our coal plants because coal is still a very good resource for us in this country.”
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August 28, 2009
Alaska Clean Coal Project Moves Ahead As Agreements Are SignedThe Alaska Journal of Commerce reported that “the boards of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority and Golden Valley Electric Association of Fairbanks approved minor changes Aug. 24 in an agreement for the electric cooperative to purchase the mothballed 50-megawatt Healy Clean Coal project,” which “signals the commitment of both parties to continue working toward a final sale agreement for the plant, despite the loss of Homer Electric Association as a customer for part of the electricity the plant would produce.”
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August 28, 2009
University Of Texas Among Those Awarded CCS Research GrantThe Washington Examiner reported that Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Thursday that “the University of Texas at Austin is one of seven organizations receiving funding to develop sequestration technology training projects.” The $8.4 million awarded to the university “will be used to train site developers, geologists, engineers, and technicians in order to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and technologies for CO2 sequestration.” Said Chu, “These projects will train workers for a clean energy economy and help position the United States as a leader in carbon capture and storages technologies for years to come.”
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August 27, 2009
Panel Claims Climate Bill Would Have Devastating Impact On West Virginia EconomyThe Huntington News reports that a panel of speakers at the Marshall Student Center Alumni Lounge discussed the potential economic impact of the Waxman-Markey bill. One of the panel’s speakers, Dr. Margo Thorning, senior vice president and Chief Economist of the American Council for Capital Formation, “projected that by 2030, [West Virginia’s] gross state product would be lowered by $1.32 billion dollars, a loss of 5,611 jobs, gasoline up seventy cents a gallon, and, depending upon whom you rely, electricity costs shooting to infinity.”
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August 26, 2009
Carbon Capture Project Proposed For Wise County PlantThe Bristol Herald-Courier reports, “A demonstration project to remove carbon dioxide from coal-fired smokestack emissions has been proposed for a controversial power plant under construction in Wise County, Va., and the project could be partially funded with federal stimulus dollars.”
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August 26, 2009
California To Start Certification Process For CCS PlantBloomberg News reports that California’s Energy Commission said that “it will consider approving a carbon-capture plant proposed by a joint venture of units of Rio Tinto Plc and BP Plc.” The project, which “will require more than $1 billion in investment,” will “convert blends of petroleum coke and coal into hydrogen that will be used to fuel a power station,” and “will also capture 90 percent of the carbon dioxide produced.”
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