Penn. Gov: With CCS "We're Sitting On A Gold Mine."

September 22, 2009

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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