Saturday, January 26, 2008

Sask. Party, NDP spar over federal funding

Although $30 to $100 - Million is great for Clean Coal. It is a far cry short of the $1 Billion commitment that would be required by the federal government to invest in the new technology proposed for Shand 2 (Oxy-Fuel.)

I suspect we are looking at retrofitting an existing unit with this type of commitment.

It is to bad that we don't have the political will to proceed with the Oxy-fuel project. I bet it would had been just as successful as Canada's CANDU project. Read Murray's article below.

Murray Mandryk, The Leader-Post Published: Thursday, January 24, 2008

Wall cited possible federal involvement in expensive "clean coal demonstration projects" that might very well come in "$30-, $40- or $100-million increments" as money that might be available to Saskatchewan people that is unavailable to other Canadians.

Read more HERE

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