Alaska Coal-to-Liquid-Fuel Efforts Aided By Prez

i-Newswire, 2005-02-09 – FAIRBANKS, Alaska — President Bush’s call in his State of the Union address for affordable and “environmentally resposible” energy for America has been hailed as a shot in the arm to efforts to develop liquid fuel from Alaska coal.

The President’s remarks came after an old shuttered gold mill near Fairbanks has begun to stir again.

Workers have dusted off the crushing equipment, swept out the engineering and administrative offices and brushed a fresh coat of brown paint on the interior tanks, and yellow and green paint on the railings.

The cleanup at the cobwebbed Grant Gold Mill on the gentle slopes of Ester Dome in central Alaska, 10 miles northwest of here, is part of the effort to convert the mill into a demonstration plant producing liquid fuel from low-grade Alaska coal that could provide a significant answer to the world’s oil crisis.

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