CONSOL Energy and Synthesis Energy Systems Announce Funding of Front-End Engineering Design Package for West Virginia Coal Gasification Project

CONSOL Energy Inc., the nation’s largest producer of bituminous coal, and Synthesis Energy Systems Inc., a global industrial gasification company, intend to develop through a joint venture their first U.S. coal gasification and liquefaction plant to be located in West Virginia. CONSOL (through its subsidiary Terra Firma Company) and SES have formed Northern Appalachia Fuel LLC (“NAF”),... 

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BP, Rio Tinto Venture to Develop Clean Coal Energy

BP Plc and Rio Tinto Plc formed a joint venture, Hydrogen Energy, to develop technology for producing power from coal, oil and natural gas without emitting the gases blamed for global warming. Rio will pay $32 million to BP to form the equally owned venture, which includes two planned BP hydrogen-fuel projects in Scotland and California that will cost at least $1 billion each. “Projects such... 

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Alliant seeks approval for coal plant

Formalizing a decision it announced in April, Alliant Energy Corp. has asked state regulators for permission to build a coal-fired power plant in Cassville, expanding the existing Nelson Dewey facility. The proposed 300-megawatt plant would provide enough power for about 150,000 homes. If approved, Alliant hopes to begin construction of the $777 million plant by June 2008 so it could be operational... 

Southwest urged to forgo new coal plants

The southwestern United States is especially vulnerable to global warming, but the region can help stop climate change by forgoing new coal-fired power plants in favor of conservation measures and renewable energy, according to a new study. If more than a dozen new coal plants planned in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico come online, they will emit as much heat-trapping carbon dioxide... 

A cleaner source of coal power

The new, cleaner coal technology “integrated gasification combined-cycle” – better known as coal gasification – holds promise as part of Wisconsin’s next generation of baseload power plants, a state report concludes. The Department of Natural Resources and the Public Service Commission have been studying coal gasification, which is being pushed by environmentalists but... 

Coal gasification options in Alaska

In the portfolio of possibilities for the development of Alaska energy resources, coal gasification has taken a prominent position in the past year. In November 2005 Agrium announced its Blue Sky project, to use coal gasification as an alternative to natural gas to feed its fertilizer plant at Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula ”” in August the company announced that it was progressing to phase... 

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Angleton: Haven’t Felt This Good About Illinois Coal in a Long Time

With the announcement on Tuesday that two Illinois communities are in the final running for FutureGen–a $1 billion low-pollution coal-fired power plant–things are looking up for the state’s coal industry. “For coal in general, I think we’re seeing a major upturn,” said Joe Angleton of Du Quoin, current director of the Office of Miners and Minerals of the Illinois...