Email of the day 6

This just hit my inbox, from Gary T. Strasburg, DAF Civ, Chief, Environmental Public Affairs, US Air Force:

After a thorough review of project requirements and information submitted by a team of functional experts, the Air Force has determined proposals received for a coal-to-liquid synthetic fuel plant on Malmstrom AFB, Mont., are not viable and will no longer pursue possible development of a plant at the installation.

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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  1. biodiversivist's avatar

    biodiversivist Posted 4:48 am
    31 Jan 2009

    WowA green meme seems to be spreading.

    In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
  2. Pompey Road Posted 6:08 am
    31 Jan 2009

    Good News But:Is this the only CTL installation the AirForce is looking at?

    The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.
  3. Russ Posted 6:18 am
    31 Jan 2009

    Pompey-Probably. If I recall correctly there exist in this country only a few demo plants using differing processes, so I can't imagine the AF was ready to plunge into a multiple-deployment stage all at once.
    I believe the commercial CTL plant scheduled for West Virginia has also been mothballed, happily one of the many casualties of the price crash.
  4. Max8806's avatar

    Max8806 Posted 6:30 am
    31 Jan 2009

    Awesome

    Max Epstein
  5. GreenMom Posted 2:04 pm
    31 Jan 2009

    How ironic.....if the economic downturn winds up saving the planet. :-)
    I hear China is slowing up on the coal-fired power plant construction, too...
  6. amazingdrx's avatar

    amazingdrx Posted 3:21 pm
    31 Jan 2009

    Check it GreenMomMore good news?  A volcano maybe about to help out in Alaska, a few volcanic eruptions over the next few years might just give us some time to work with.
    That's what caused the 1816 year without a summer, three eruptions.

    http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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