Sunday, January 11, 2009

Moving forward with 'clean coal'

By James Wood, Saskatchewan News Network; Canwest News Service

SaskPower and the provincial government will face a major decision this year as they attempt to move forward with a groundbreaking "clean coal" project near Estevan.

After inviting 15 vendors to bring forward proposals last summer, SaskPower has received five responses from companies interested in providing the technology for its $1.4 billion pilot project.

The government expects to announce a shortlist in early February and make its technology
choice in the last month of 2009, Saskatchewan Party Crown Corporations Minister Ken Cheveldayoff said this week.

"I'm told that the five who've come back are very strong so I guess the bottom line is if you can get five strong competing ones that is satisfactory," said Cheveldayoff, expressing confidence

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Five companies are interested to provide $1.4 billion pilot project.