Wyoming Coal-to-Liquid (CTL) Project One Step Closer

Before reading this update, you might want to review the various coal technologies in North Dakota at this posting. In addition to the Bakken, the coal potential in North Dakota is huge, perhaps made bigger by the Japanese nuclear disaster.

Now back to the news coming out of Wyoming. The Wyoming Supreme Court agrees with the proponents of coal technology and against the environmentalists regarding an air permit for a coal-to-gasoline.

A planned multibillion-dollar operation that would convert coal into gasoline and diesel fuel near Medicine Bow is getting a boost from a Wyoming Supreme Court ruling upholding a state air permit for the facility.

When completed, the plant would produce 21,000 barrels of gasoline a day from locally mined coal.

Houston-based DKRW Advanced Fuels is still waiting for a reply from the Department of Energy for a loan guarantee for which they applied in 2009.