Our ISCG developments have been gaining attention from various major news outlets:
Province will contribute $285M to $1.5B coal gasification project (Edmonton Journal)
Alberta signs third carbon-capture deal with coal-to-gas project (The Canadian Press)
Alberta offers C$285 million to carbon capture plan (Reuters)
Cleaner burning coal power plants (CBC Radio’s Calgary Eyeopener)
Coal is the future and Alberta is the laboratory (The Globe and Mail)
Swan Hills Synfuels conducts its ISCG operations at very deep depths, in a saline water environment where there is no risk of contaminating fresh groundwater resources. In contrast, underground coal gasification practiced in shallow coals in freshwater aquifers can create risks of fresh groundwater contamination, as is discussed in the article below.
Should Alberta build its next coal plants underground? – (Energize Alberta)
Tapping into coal (Nitrogen + Syngas Magazine)
Canada’s top 25 energy infrastructure projects (Alberta Oil Magazine)
Alberta finances Swan Hills project (Carbon Capture Journal)
Province pumps $285M into coal gasification project (Calgary Herald)
Coal-to-gas plan to fuel power plant by 2015 (Edmonton Journal)
Innovative Clean Power Project Secures Provincial Grant (Pollution Online)
Alberta to Award C$285M to Underground Coal Gasification with Carbon Capture Project for Power Generation; 75% Lower GHG Intensity Than Existing Coal-Fired Generators (Green Car Congress)
An Alberta Firm Dives into Deep Coal Gasification (Process West Magazine)
A new way of thinking about coal (Edmonton Journal)
Clean coal? Go underground, Alberta (Globe and Mail)
Alberta to Host Underground Coal Gasification Demo (Green Car Congress)
Alberta coal gas project probes depths (Calgary Herald)
Alberta continues to explore cleaner energy from coal (Gov. of Alberta)
Alberta to be site of $30-million experiment to turn underground coal into syngas (Calgary Herald)