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August 26, 2008
Schweitzer Speech Energizes the ConventionMark Warner was tonight's keynote speaker, but it was the raucous Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer who worked the crowd into a frenzy, delivering a kinetic speech about--of all things--energy policy.
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August 24, 2008
Coal must be significant part of realistic U.S. energy policyEnergy prices, though they have receded some in recent weeks, spiked to push gasoline over $4 a gallon during much of the summer. There is legitimate concern about what heating costs will do to family budgets this winter.
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August 20, 2008
Coal forum discusses W.Va.'s role in energy debateCoal is the largest part of the nation's energy profile, and a new report released Tuesday in West Virginia doesn't see that changing even with a growing shift to renewable energy.
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August 18, 2008
Ausra hopes to add solar power to coal plantsAusra is an alternative energy company that is counting on fossil fuels to help it survive. Congress’ failure to renew a 30 percent investment tax credit for cleantech energy makes it unlikely that banks will finance plants like Ausra develops, which use solar power to generate steam. So in the meantime, the Palo Alto company is turning its attention to coal plants.
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August 16, 2008
Op-Ed: Taxpayers should support clean coalLet's look underground. We have vast quantities of coal in this country. This could give us energy security and would ease worries about running out of oil and gas, not to mention pushing down oil and gas prices as we use more coal and less oil.
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August 14, 2008
Coal is called crucial to U.S. energy needsBut coal-powered generation must deal with "the 800-pound gorilla -- and that's climate change," said Steve Miller, president and CEO of the Virginia-based American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. Miller, who grew up in Owenton, Ky., said the coalition "believes in the use of all our domestic energy sources."
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August 13, 2008
Alabama Power looks for new ways to make coal workAlabama Power Co. thinks the future of the state's energy grid will look very much like it does today — lots of coal, but maybe new technologies to burn it. The utility, for example, has pursued coal gasification at a plant in Shelby County and will join in a test carbon sequestration project in Mississippi this fall.
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August 12, 2008
New Mexico carbon sequestration project gets underwayThe US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Southwest Regional Partnership (SWP) have started injecting CO2 into a large coalbed at the San Juan Basin near Navajo City, New Mexico. During the 6-month demonstration project, SWP plans to inject over 31,000 tonnes of CO2 into three coalbed methane-producing wells, whilst simultaneously recovering the methane. The San Juan Basin is one of the top ranked basins in the world for CO2 coalbed sequestration.
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August 01, 2008