CIRI proposes Cook Inlet coal plant
Published Friday, October 9, 2009
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Stumble It!ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska Native corporation says it wants to build a new power plant using coal on the west side of Cook Inlet.
Cook Inlet Regional Inc. announced its proposal Friday for a 100-megawatt plant 20 miles north of Tyonek.
Officials say emerging technology would be used for the plant that doesn't require coal to be mined. The Anchorage Daily News reports the coal would be transformed into natural gas underground.
The process involves drilling wells into coal seams and injecting oxygen into the wells. That would cause the coal to combust and become liquid gas, which would be converted into electricity at the plant.
CIRI says if the project is feasible and gets regulatory approval, it could be producing gas by 2014.
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So Anchorage will come up with energy, while Fairbanks plays with the Gasline Port Authority and it's pipe dreams. The military will probably back this coal to gas plant in Anchorage. When are we going to learn that Fairbanks has a bunch of Hickle flunkies promoting the Port Authority, including Luke Hopkins who is the secretary and they have ruined all the opportunities for this community to have something in place. Almost ten years have passed since they came about and they have produced nothing but an application the State called a piece of garbage.
Good luck CIRI. People have been trying to develop west side coal for over 40 years and I doubt if a ton has been removed. 2014 is a stretch. They might do this in Australia and Europe and South Africa but this is Alaska and we study. Good luck with Fire Island wind turbines as well. Whole farms of them all over the West but nothing spinning on Fire Island. Been studying that since the 70's. We might not build much but we know alot. Probably know about every kind of gasline going every direction you could think of and lots of no roads to everywhere. We are smart. We study.
Yeah! That'll fix the air pollution problem!
Yippee! The sky is green, and the grass is blue, and in this bizarro world, it all makes perfect sense!
I thought mining anything was BAD?
It will be interesting to see if thaey can get it off the ground.
so to speak
There goes the need for a bullet line or any other way of getting natural gas to over half the population of the State! Can that trucking of natural gas deal work now with only Fairbanks as the entire mark? It's doubtful, as the local demand is so small, even with GVEA's need
added to the 1,100 current customers. It seems to be too little, too late!
UCG technology has been demonstrated in the lab and it would be great if a company, such as CRI, could just get after the project, but I fear I may not live long enough to learn of their getting a permit to do so....the line of folks saying no to everything and the layers of both State and Federal regulations can make such a project remain only a dream....reminds me of Rome burning..!!..while those in today government pay music for each other...
Or a casino would be nice,Charlie you remember Rome burning? you are old!
The thing to remember about Rome, is that the elite literaly coddled and poisoned themselves to death, from their own greed, and self-indulgence. By time outside forces pushed them over, they were already rotten to the core from the inside out. Little but an empty husk.
Pearl,
How does that differ from the path we're taking in the US?
Not much!!
Sounds like a great idea. Should not take the greenies and the global warmers much time to bash this plan.
Wouldn't you say Darfur that the state itself gutted the Port Authority? Yukon Pacific's pitch was
reasonable but larger forces are at work on this and they do not give a damn about Alaska. What is wrong with Hickel making a few bucks off the thing it is not like there wasn't over 20 years of cash out nothing back investment in the venture? Somebody is going to make money off of this thing do we have make sure it is not Alaskan's? It is not like you or me have the money to do it. Something like this takes a serious hunk of money and as we are seeing politcal stroke stronger than Hickel's. If you have ever been around Hickel family members you will find them to true and upstanding hardworking members of the Alaskan community. Not until the people at the grassroots level stand up and say hell no to this preposterous
export through Canada plan are we going to have our project. Even then it will take Federal backing- it is the Feds that have the only stroke the oil companies will listen to. Holler states rights all you want we don't have the muscle to get them working with us. So instead of kicking dirt on Obama maybe we should be working on our ability to persuade?
"That would cause the coal to combust and become liquid gas, which would be converted into electricity at the plant."
Comment..
Me thinks the AP failed to copy the press release correctly.
Last time I burned coal all I got heat and carbon monoxide, co2 and water vapor.
No "liquid gas"?????????????
Murkowski was in Fairbanks today and made it pretty clear a gas line is not a reality any longer. The only one who had enough sense to get out of this political game playing around gas development in this State among the good old boys of Alaska was the good old gal Sarah Palin. Timing is everything and she had the sense to know when to fold and go on to make her fortune elsewhere. The interior has wasted ten years with the Port Authority who have produced nothing but their attorney trying to buy being Governor. The Fairbanks Gas Sale is a joke. Anchorage will no longer need their gas if the coal to gas plant produces their energy. Read the Anchorage Daily News for the story.
Who in their right mind will buy $250 million in bonds to truck gas to Fairbanks and build a plant to produce extra energy for Anchorage in North Pole now. CIRI made millions off of telecommunications, enough so that their shareholders received anywhere from $50,000 to $250,000 as a bonus payout. They know how to do business and their shareholders have the money to show for it. What does Fairbanks have to show for the tax money given to the Port Authority, not one thin dime. Tom Irwin was right the Port Authority is a joke and Fairbanks loses again.
Darfur you bought the scam hook line and sinker and are not seeing the facts. Irwin and Palin finished off the Port Authority and not because it was a joke but because they were hellbent on the export to Canada project. Still are in the form of Parnell and Irwin. It is a project that has big benefits for big oil. Meanwhile we could have had gas here in Fairbanks one year from now and been exporting competitively from Valdez or wherever. Gas pipelines can go in fast. Amazingly fast. There is a lot of could haves. How bout saying they just flat out screwed us with gusto and are just the end of a long line? There could have easily been a gas line decades ago. I will believe the Ciri coal to gas story when I see them start construction.
FreeDarfur..
"What does Fairbanks have to show for the tax money given to the Port Authority, not one thin dime."
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Hot AIR.
I understand Luke Hopkins is/was Secretary to the port authority(?).
I figured it was another crack pot scam.
From the get go.
tom irwin is a crook and a union buster that is in the mining industries pocket....local hire my ass
Hopkins is the secretary of the Port Authority, why do you think he is hacking energy to Fairbanks. The fact is it isn't going to happen. Look at what the port authority is doing their attorney running for Governor and their secretary running for Mayor of this Borough. They lost in the application process and now they are trying to plant their people in public office to get public funds to build a gas line no one will transport gas in. Think, which producers have come forward and said they will ship gas in any line. Hopkins agenda is about the Port Authority, not this community and its energy needs.
What all ready this "major story" is on page 5? Read the entire story in the Anchorage paper [a real paper] if you want to know & understand the facts * possible long term effects here! Is this "dropping" coverage becouse if this actually happens, it would put the "wammee"
on the Port Authority Gas Trucking Deal? After all this would reduce the preposed customer base to only Fairbanks 1,100 current customers & perhaps GVEA in North Pole. Not enough to warrant bonding $ 250,000,000 in set up expenses. Thus, the Port Authority, Fairbanks Natural Gas "deal" would be "dead on arrival"! Not enough customers to make it worthwhile doing, it could never pay for itself/repay the set up costs!!
For those with the time and energy to want to know a little about the history of Under ground Coal Gasification, and where the process is today...just Google it. The process has been around since the 30's.
The Alberta UCG field experiment will be the first for North America and interesting to see how it develops.
It still seems to me, Alaska needs to stay focused on development of its vast known Hydro resources, especially the railbelt...Southeastern Alaska is doing quite well with its prusuit of Hydro projects and expansion of its distrubution system to serve not only greater numbers of their citizens but gain reliability of their systems.
The best renewable resouce projects that could serve 85% of Alaska citizen are Chakachumna and phase one of Susitna hydro...We have the need for these projects, we have the resource available, we have the money to proceed, but still lack the policical and Public support to get the job done...
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