[CPEO-BIF] Mesaba power plant, Minnesota

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Concerns raised over Mesaba site

Than Tibbetts
Grand Rapids Herald Review (MN)
November 20, 2006

As hunting season closes, several hunters and landowners in the vicinity 
of the proposed Mesaba project wonder if it could be one of their last 
seasons bagging bucks in the area.

The proposed 600-megawatt, coal-fired power plant - 1,200 megawatts if 
you include both phases being proposed - would sit on land near Taconite 
that many say is not what proposer Excelsior Energy originally said - a 
brownfield site.

Their concern is that construction of the power plant would destroy 
acres of pristine woodlands, and not occupy former mining land as some 
say Excelsior Energy officials have led the public to believe.

Excelsior Energy is seeking to build an integrated gasification combined 
cycle (IGCC) power plant. The technology is designed to convert coal 
into a synthetic gas before it is burned to create electricity.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.grandrapids-mn.com/heraldreview/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=227209

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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