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LARAMIE — Wyoming and coal were elementary school sweethearts who grew up, got married, succeeded beyond their own imaginations and now are seeing counselors to take advantage of all possible ways to maintain their “chemistry” in the face of new, global challenges.
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There are enough hurdles for clean-coal technology today. So a few bright people have decided they don’t need to add another one: how to finance and build a power line — or wait on someone who can.
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For more than a decade, scientists from Exxon Mobil Corp. have been injecting a dense carbon-dioxide mixture deep into the rock beneath southwest Wyoming.
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EnCana gives $34,000 to FFA EnCana Oil and Gas (USA) Inc., in a partnership with the Wyoming FFA Foundation, presented $34,000 to FFA chapters for chapter grant programs, educational expenses, scholarships and the annual convention.
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Sure, there’s hundreds of years of coal left in the Powder River Basin. But less than 10 percent of the 510 billion tons can be harvested by conventional surface mining methods, according to industry officials.
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If a recent surge in permitted energy facilities is any indication, the next phase of Wyoming’s energy boom will include more traditional coal burning, more newfangled wind farms and some old coal made anew as 87-octane gasoline.
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Investment mogul Warren Buffett bought a huge tract of Powder River Basin coal properties.
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GREEN RIVER — Occasionally throughout history, a really bad idea pops up. Think League of Nations, 8-track tapes, Beta max videos, and the Berlin Wall, to name a few.
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Construction of a facility that will turn coal into regular gasoline should begin in Carbon County in 2010, and will take about three years to complete.