Company drops plans for coal-fired plant

[TexasTowelie]

SWEETWATER, Texas — A company has dropped plans to build a coal-fired power plant in West Texas.

Omaha-based Tenaska says it will focus on the development of natural gas-fueled and renewable facilities.

The company had been pursuing plans for the plant near Sweetwater and one in Taylorville, Ill., more than five years.

The Texas plant would have used new technology to recover up to 90 percent of carbon dioxide emissions. The emissions would have been sold to oil companies for underground piping to help recover oil. Carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants are believed to contribute to global warming.

The proposed Sweetwater plant faced many hurdles, including scarcity of water.

More at http://lubbockonline.com/filed-online/2013-06-22/company-drops-plans-coal-fired-power-plant#comment-294830 .

[white cloud]

1. It all about the cost of fuel

Wait till China own most all of our NG industry and starts exporting Billion of tons of LNG out of our ports.. Driving price up for US consumers.

Then they will bring back coal!!

[mbperrin]

2. No, that is when they need to realize that wind and solar cannot be exported.

And they're both clean, oh yeah, and NO fuel cost!

Texas is already#1 in wind power - we just need to multiply what we have by many times.

I personally cheer every time a coal plant shuts down, a nuclear plant is decommissioned, and a natural gas plant is not built.

Because wind and solar also don't cost us our water supply to extract or to burn, unlike all three of the other filthy options.

[They_Live]

3. + 1000

we need to really focus on solar, wind, and wave power. That other crap is gonna kill us all.