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Article: United States : Feds award $2.7M for Wolverine carbon project.
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- October 8, 2009
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An electric power co-op that wants to build a coal-fired plant in northern Michigan has received a $2.7 million federal grant for a project designed to prevent industrial carbon dioxide from contributing to climate change, officials said Tuesday.
The Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative Inc. project is among 12 funded by the Department of Energy to test technologies that capture carbon dioxide and store it underground instead of releasing it into the atmosphere, where it traps heat and warms the planet.
Wolverine Power's carbon capture system would be tested at a 600-megawatt plant it hopes to build near Rogers City. It would use chemicals and additives ...