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Article: United States : CIRI plans coal-to-gas plant to produce electricity for region.
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- October 10, 2009
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An Anchorage Native corporation said Friday it aims to build a new electric power plant on the west side of Cook Inlet -- using coal instead of the region's dwindling natural gas supply.
The project would rely on an emerging but proven technology to tap the energy content of coal without mining it. Hundreds of feet underground, the coal would be transformed into gas, according to officials from Cook Inlet Region Inc., which owns several hundred thousand acres in the vast Beluga coal fields.
The entire development, about 20 miles north of Tyonek, could cost $280 million, using the company's rough estimates. CIRI plans to build it with private financing.
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