Gov. Manchin joins Sen. Rockefeller and bounded officials, with abutment from Sen. Byrd, and West Virginia Congressional appointment to advertise CONSOL and SES will advance $800 actor in Marshall County CTL facility. It's clearer than anytime that one of the better issues our accompaniment and country faces is affair our activity needs I am committed to authoritative West Virginia the baton in apple-pie atramentous technology and the architecture of apple-pie atramentous ability and ammunition condensate plants. We accept the assets and ability to apprehend our goal. We are in the bosom of a austere activity crisis in America. Today, with this activity and others in the works, West Virginia is announcement to the apple that we're not cat-and-mouse about anymore We're accepting started with a CTL bulb that will actualize jobs, accommodated avant-garde ecology standards and advance our a lot of abounding calm ability - coal. This bulb will advice put our accompaniment and our country on the aisle to activity aegis and greater bread-and-butter growth. America cannot accommodated its activity needs. West Virginia has the coal, the brains, and the assurance to accommodated that claiming and authenticate to the apple that we intend to be allotment of the solution. This activity has the abeyant to transform West Virginia from a above coal-producing accompaniment to a civic activity centermost as well By converting some of our region's abundant, high-Btu atramentous into gases and liquids, not alone will we actualize bread-and-butter amount for the state, but we will advice West Virginia become the linchpin of American activity security Together with our partner, CONSOL Energy, we will be demography a aboriginal footfall against accepting activity ability in the U.S. as we catechumen raw and balance atramentous from CONSOL's Shoemaker abundance and bulb into gasoline in an environmentally amenable and cost-efficient manner. We ambition to acknowledge Consol, SES, the City of Benwood, the State of West Virginia and RED for their anticipation and charge to this project In every chat I accept had with Gov. Manchin in contempo years, we accept talked about means to advantage West Virginia's atramentous position into a civic activity administration position -- a position in which jobs, bread-and-butter growth, and the accessory of American activity aegis breeze from the harnessing of West Virginia's assets and the 'can-do' attitude of its people His eyes is sound. With West Virginia's help, our success with this bulb will accomplish the eyes a reality.
Benwood, WV (Vocus/PRWEB ) July 28, 2008 -- Gov. Joe Manchin today abutting Sen. Jay Rockefeller, with abutment from Sen. Robert C. Byrd and West Virginia's Congressional delegation, and admiral from CONSOL Energy, Synthesis Energy Systems (SES) and the Regional Economic Development Partnership (RED), to advertise a activity that will advice actuate the State of West Virginia to the beginning of national activity leadership: The architecture of the nation's aboriginal avant-garde coal-to-liquids bulb actuality in the state's Northern Panhandle.
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"It's clearer than anytime that one of the better issues our accompaniment and country faces is affair our activity needs," Manchin said. "Technological solutions like this bulb at Benwood will advance to added environmentally affable means to use our atramentous and authority the key to America's activity security.
"I am committed to authoritative West Virginia the baton in apple-pie atramentous technology and the architecture of apple-pie atramentous ability and ammunition condensate plants. We accept the assets and ability to apprehend our goal."
Rockefeller said the activity will accord West Virginia an befalling to appearance the apple that the accompaniment is a all-around baton in activity issues and avant-garde atramentous technology. "We are in the bosom of a austere activity crisis in America. Today, with this activity and others in the works, West Virginia is announcement to the apple that we're not cat-and-mouse about anymore," Rockefeller said.
"We're accepting started with a CTL bulb that will actualize jobs, accommodated avant-garde ecology standards and advance our a lot of abounding calm ability - coal. This bulb will advice put our accompaniment and our country on the aisle to activity aegis and greater bread-and-butter growth."
Byrd said, "America cannot accommodated its activity needs. West Virginia has the coal, the brains, and the assurance to accommodated that claiming and authenticate to the apple that we intend to be allotment of the solution."
CONSOL, the nation's better ambassador of bituminous coal, and SES, a all-around automated gasification company, intend to advance through a collective venture, their aboriginal U. S. atramentous gasification and condensate bulb in West Virginia -- an $800 actor investment. The boards of admiral of CONSOL and SES accept accustomed funds for development activities, including the front-end engineering architecture ("FEED") package. Each affiliate aggregation will accord appropriately to this appearance of the project. CONSOL and SES accept formed Northern Appalachia Fuel LLC (NAF) as the aggregation through which the development will occur.
"This activity has the abeyant to transform West Virginia from a above coal-producing accompaniment to a civic activity centermost as well," said J. Brett Harvey, admiral and CEO of CONSOL Energy. "By converting some of our region's abundant, high-Btu atramentous into gases and liquids, not alone will we actualize bread-and-butter amount for the state, but we will advice West Virginia become the linchpin of American activity security," Harvey said.
Tim Vail, admiral and CEO of SES, said he is appreciative of the advance against development of the bulb and that they acknowledge the state's and RED's support. "Together with our partner, CONSOL Energy, we will be demography a aboriginal footfall against accepting activity ability in the U.S. as we catechumen raw and balance atramentous from CONSOL's Shoemaker abundance and bulb into gasoline in an environmentally amenable and cost-efficient manner."
The FEED will cover a carbon administration action that will focus on carbon aloofness in a abysmal acrid aquifer. At a after date, NAF will book for ecology and added permits all-important for the architecture of the plant.
CONSOL and SES adduce to website the bulb abreast Benwood in Marshall County on a brownfields redevelopment site. The bulb is accepted to be a "mine mouth" ability with feedstock supplied anon from CONSOL's adjacent Shoemaker complex. The feedstock will be a alloy of run-of-mine atramentous and atramentous contrarily not recovered in the accustomed alertness process.
Don Mason, admiral of the Marshall County Commission, said this investment will advice to balance the region's abridgement for years to come. "We ambition to acknowledge Consol, SES, the City of Benwood, the State of West Virginia and RED for their anticipation and charge to this project," Mason said.
Coal will be adapted to constructed gas application SES proprietary technology. The syngas would be acclimated to aftermath about 720,000 metric bags per year of booze that can be acclimated as a feedstock for the actinic industry. Officials apprehend the activity will be able of converting booze to about 100 actor gallons per year of 87 octane gasoline. NAF is negotiating with ExxonMobil Research and Engineering to authorization their proprietary methanol-to-gasoline technology. As envisioned, the activity will cover a river terminal facility, area articles will be stored in tanks for off-loading into barges for ultimate delivery.
CONSOL and SES aswell accept active a announcement of compassionate (MOU) with the State of West Virginia and its partner, the Regional Economic Development Partnership, a clandestine West Virginia non-profit development association focused on breeding business opportunities through job conception and bread-and-butter bang in Ohio, Marshall and Wetzel counties. Under the accoutrement of the MOU, the accompaniment and RED will accommodate costs and tax incentives to the activity over a 10-year period.
Harvey thanked the State of West Virginia and the RED for their abetment and abutment of the project. "In every chat I accept had with Gov. Manchin in contempo years, we accept talked about means to advantage West Virginia's atramentous position into a civic activity administration position -- a position in which jobs, bread-and-butter growth, and the accessory of American activity aegis breeze from the harnessing of West Virginia's assets and the 'can-do' attitude of its people," Harvey said. "His eyes is sound. With West Virginia's help, our success with this bulb will accomplish the eyes a reality."
