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...Schweitzer acknowledges some concerns environmentalists and others have about developing state land, but still argues coal-to-diesel plants can be developed with smokestack-free potential. The Billings-based Northern Plains Resource Council says that Schweitzer has not realistically confronted the emissions of heavy metals and other pollution from the would-be plant...
...barrel. But with oil in the $60 range, liquefied coal is looking better than ever. "If one were assured of some stability in that base price, then they'd say, 'Oh, I guess I will invest the $6.5 billion it takes to build a coal liquification plant," David Garman, Under Secretary of Energy, told TIME...
...driving engineers even harder. An unlikely trio of industry, the government and environmentalists wants to capture the carbon dioxide produced during combustion, the leading contributor to global warming, and store it deep underground. But that can only be accomplished-if it can be accomplished -with a gasification or liquiefaction plant. "With [current] plants there's no technology you can bolt on that really allows you to deal with that issue," says Jim Rogers, CEO of Cinergy. "We need to be building technologies that allow us to deal with...
...Europe for the past two decades, but some of its biggest opponents are to be found in Scandinavia, where environmental concerns are taken especially seriously. Sweden has voted to get out of nuclear energy altogether, and in Finland a 1993 application by utility TVO to build a new nuclear plant was overwhelmingly rejected by parliament. But on a balmy night this September, some 300 executives from the world of energy and politics clambered into a huge hole in the Finnish town of Olkiluoto to watch a laser lightshow as the climax of a highly unusual celebration: the groundbreaking...
...years ago, most people outside France would have scoffed at such claims. The accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island plant in 1979 and the disaster at Chernobyl seven years later turned an already skeptical world public against nuclear energy. Moreover, oil as cheap as $10 per barrel in the 1990s destroyed its economic rationale. But times have changed. Lessening energy dependence on unstable Middle Eastern and other countries is now a government priority in many countries. And with worldwide demand for energy rising sharply, oil prices spiking at more than $60/bbl and fears growing among the public at large...