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Article: United States: Coal-fired power plant planned by CIRI.
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- October 10, 2009
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An Anchorage Native corporation said this morning 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 100-megawatt plant would rely on an emerging but proven technology that doesn t require the coal to be mined. Instead, the coal would be transformed into gas underground, according to officials from Cook Inlet Region Inc., which owns several hundred thousand acres in the vast Beluga coal fields. CIRI proposes drilling wells into coal seams, then injecting oxygen into those wells, causing the coal to combust and become liquid gas. CIRI would then convert the gas into ...