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{{#Badges:CoalSwarm|Navbar-CoalPlants}} Chaco Valley Energy, a BHP Billiton subsidiary, submitted a permit application in March 2004 to build a power plant if the Sithe proposal at Desert Rock was not successful.[1] BHP Billiton operates coal mines in New Mexico on and near Navajo lands.[2]
BHP recently withdrew its air permit application. The San Juan Citizens Alliance expects that this project will only return to the drawing board if Desert Rock is unsuccessful.[3]
Contents
Project Details
Sponsor: Chaco Valley Energy
Capacity: 550 MW
Projected in service:
Status: On hold indefinitely
Financing
Citizen Groups
Resources
References
- ↑ Air Quality and Clean Energy Program, Grand Canyon Trust, undated, accessed January 2008.
- ↑ New Mexico Coal, BHP Billiton corporate website, accessed January 2008.
- ↑ “The Coal Rush: National Power Plant Frenzy Comes to Four Corners", desert-rock-blog.com, September 6, 2007.
Related SourceWatch Articles
- New Mexico and coal
- United States and coal
- Carbon Capture and Storage
- Existing U.S. Coal Plants
- US proposed coal plants (both active and cancelled)
- Coal plants cancelled in 2007
- Coal plants cancelled in 2008
- State-by-state guide to information on coal in the United States (or click on the map)
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External links
- "Tracking New Coal-Fired Power Plants", National Energy Technology Lab, May 1, 2007, page 17. (Pdf)
- "Stopping the Coal Rush", Sierra Club, accessed December 2007. (This is a Sierra Club list of new coal plant proposals.)
- desert-rock-blog.com
