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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (71481)	12/6/2009 9:37:15 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 74559

Much of our coal is low quality, water-logged, and far from markets. However we can use it locally via UCG... CIRI plans coal to gas Underground coal gasification could fuel power generation for Alaska Railbelt petroleumnews.com Because the properties of the coal in the Beluga area are fairly well known, CIRI has been able to estimate the rate of energy production achievable from the target seam and has determined that the 100-megawatt power plant would use about three acres of the seam per year, thus consuming only about one square mile of the coal during the anticipated 30-year life of the power plant. And given the thousands of acres of CIRI land in the area, just that one coal seam could potentially provide energy for tens of thousands of years, Schutt said.