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The paragraph I posted earlier regarding Evergreen's demonstration plant in Texas has since been removed from the corresponding web site. However, the statement of interest can still be found in google cache, though I don't know how long it will remain there:


https://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:uzFRnPs39q8J:www.cctft.org/members.asp+Clean+Coal+Technology+F
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This is further evidence that some people will DO anything to discredit this company and its supporters. They have no integrity and cannot be trusted.

Obviously the contents of the google cache won't remain there forever, so here is the entire contents of the web page, copied and pasted without modification from the google cache system:

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Members

Member Profiles

Board of Directors

Chairman
Charles D. McConnell — Praxair, Inc.

Vice Chairman
Gary Gibbs — American Electric Power

Treasurer
Chesley Blevins – Westmoreland Coal Company

Ex-Officio Director
The Honorable Michael L. Williams
Chairman, Governor's Clean Coal Technology Council
Chairman, Railroad Commission of Texas

Foundation Representatives
Randy Eminger — American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
Dennis Kearns — BNSF
Ted Venners — Evergreen Energy
Ben Harris — Hydrogen Energy
Kelly Tomblin — International Power
Henry Eby — Lower Colorado River Authority
Wade Stansell — Luminant
William Sarunic — Millennium Synfuels
Kelly Mader – Peabody Energy
Mark Russell – Russell and Sons Construction
David Fiorelli – Tenaska, Inc.




American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy
Headquarters: Alexandria, Virginia
Presence in Texas: Amarillo
Technologies they champion/innovate: IGCC, Coal-to-hydrogen
Leadership: Brett Harvey, Chmn. (CONSOL Energy President & CEO)
Foundation representative: Randy Erminger
Year Company joined Foundation: 2004
History: The organization was founded as CEED in 1992 by the nation’s leading coal producers and railroad companies. Membership has grown from 35 initial members to nearly 200, and includes electricity producers, barge and trucking companies, equipment manufacturers and suppliers, labor unions, and others. In 2008 CEED changed its name to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
www.cleancoalusa.org


American Electric Power
Headquarters: Columbus, Ohio
Presence in Texas: AEP serves 373 communities and approximately 850,000 customers in Texas. Major cities AEP serves include Corpus Christi, Abilene, McAllen, Harlingen, San Angelo, Vernon, Victoria, and Laredo. AEP owns four natural gas and three coal-fired power plants in Texas.
National fuel mix: Coal-73%, Natural Gas-16%, Nuclear-8%, Misc.-3%
Technologies they champion/innovate: IGCC (Facilities in WV and OH in 2012 and 2017, respectively), Carbon capture, Coal Combustion
Corporate Leadership: Michael G. Morris (Chairman & CEO)
2007 Earnings: $13.4B (Symbol: AEP)
Foundation representative: Gary Gibbs (Treasurer)
Year company joined Foundation: 2004
History: AEP was founded in 1906 as the American Gas & Electric Company. It acquired its first utility properties one year later. Utilities in its early years included electric service, gas, water, steam, transit, and ice service. In 1958, AG&E became American Electric Power. The company merged with Central and Southwest Corp. in 2000.
Today, AEP has the nation’s largest electric transmission system, spanning 39,000 miles. It is also one of America’s largest electric providers, delivering 38,000 megawatts of generating capacity to 11 states, including Texas.
www.aep.com


BNSF
Headquarters and regional offices: Fort Worth, TX
Presence in Texas: Fort Worth
Clean Coal Technologies they champion/innovate:
Financial picture (Earnings, stock performance): $14.9B (Symbol: BNI)
Corporate Leadership: Matthew K. Rose (Chairman, President, & CEO
Foundation representative:
Year Company joined Foundation: 2008
History: BNSF is a product of America’s rich railroad tradition, dating back to 1849. Over the years, 390 railroad lines have merged into what the company is today. In September 1995, it became the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation. The company changed its name to Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway in December 1996, and again to BNSF Railway in January 2005. Today, BNSF is the second-largest transcontinental railroad operating in the United States. It operates rail lines in 28 states and Canada. In 2006, BNSF ran an average of 55 coal trains per day and transported a record-high 287.2 million tons of coal, which accounted for 20 percent of the company’s revenues.
www.bnsf.com


Evergreen Energy, Inc.
Headquarters and regional offices: Denver, Colorado
Presence in Texas: Plans to introduce a demonstration project.
Technologies they champion/innovate: K-Fuel® and K-Directsm. Both technologies refine coal before it is used by power plants.
2007 Revenue: $48.6M (Symbol: EEE)
Corporate Leadership: Kevin R. Collins (President & CEO)
Foundation representative: Ted Venners
Year Company joined Foundation: 2007
History: Evergreen began as KFx Inc. in 1984. It has successfully operated a 750,000-ton per year K-Fuel® plant and an R&D facility near Gillette, Wyoming. Engineering advancements at that plant are the basis for an enhanced design by Bechtel Power Corporation that will be used for future K-Fuel® refineries. Evergreen has about 150 employees.
www.evgenergy.com


Hydrogen Energy
Headquarters: Weybridge, England
Technologies they champion/innovate: Integrated Combined Gasification Cycle with Carbon Capture and Sequestration to produce Low-Carbon Hydrogen from Fossil Fuels.
Corporate Leadership: Lewis Gillies (President), Jonathan Briggs (Regional Director for the Americas)
Foundation representative: Ben Harris
Year Company joined Foundation: 2007
About the company: Hydrogen Energy International LLC is developing alternative energy solutions in the form of decarbonized energy projects. It is a joint venture between BP and Rio Tinto formed in May of 2007.
BP is a world leader in plans for low-carbon energy. Rio Tinto is a major coal producer, and brings a wide array of capabilities and know-how across the coal value chain. Both parent companies are committed to technologies and businesses that reduce carbon emissions, and will use their combined skills to accelerate the deployment of hydrogen fuelled power plants and carbon capture and storage projects.
The new company will invest in hydrogen fuelled power projects across the globe. The reduction of CO2 emissions from coal and other fossil fuels is a global challenge requiring a global solution from producers and technology owners across the value chain.
Hydrogen Energy’s initial projects will combine a number of existing technologies in a unique way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel power generation by some 90 per cent when compared with existing plants. The carbon dioxide will be extracted from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, and then stored permanently and securely deep underground, leaving hydrogen to be used as the fuel to generate low-carbon energy.
• More about Hydrogen Energy
• BP is one of the world's largest energy companies
• Rio Tinto is a world leader in finding, mining and processing the earth's mineral resources.


International Power
Headquarters and regional offices:
Headquarters: London, UK
Regional Offices: USA, Marlborough, MA
Presence in Texas: Four power plants -- Coleto Creek-coal (Fanin), Hays-gas (San Marcos), Midlothian I&II-gas (Midlothian), Oyster Creek-gas (Freeport)
Technologies they champion/innovate: Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC), Australia – carbon capture project
2006 earnings: $7.3B (Symbol: IPR-London Stock Exchange)
Corporate Leadership: Philip Cox (CEO)
Foundation representative: Kelly Tomblin
Year Company joined Foundation: 2007
History: The company began as National Power when the UK’s state-run Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) split into three private generating companies in 1990. In April 2000, National Power was renamed International Power to reflect its global presence.
Today, International Power has 38 power generating facilities in 20 countries. Together, they generate over 30,000 megawatts of electricity.
www.ipplc.com


LCRA
Headquarters: Austin
Presence in Texas: 53 Counties
Technologies they champion/innovate: Clean coal, Wind power, Biogas
2007 Earnings: $1.08 billion
Corporate Leadership: Thomas G. Mason (General Manager)
Foundation representative: Henry Eby
Year Company joined Foundation: 2004
About: LCRA is a conservation and reclamation district that provides energy, water and community services to Texans in its service area. LCRA generates electricity and sells it wholesale to city-owned utilities and cooperatives that serve more than 1.1 million people. LCRA also builds and operates transmission projects through a nonprofit corporation, manages and protects the waters of the lower Colorado River, operates parks, and helps communities with economic development.
LCRA operates six hydroelectric dams, three natural gas facilities, and one coal-fired power plant. The company also purchases 116 megawatts of wind power from West Texas facilities.
www.lcra.org


Luminant
Headquarters: Dallas
Presence in Texas: Luminant has more than 18,300 MW of generation in Texas, including 2,300 MW of nuclear and 5,800 MW of coal-fueled generation capacity. In addition, the company has 2,200 MW of coal-fueled generation under construction with start-up expected in 2009 and 2010. Luminant is the largest purchaser of wind-generated electricity in Texas and fifth largest in the United States with almost 1,000 MW currently under contract and an increased investment planned.
Technologies it champions/innovates: Luminant’s development of three new coal units includes the largest voluntary emissions reduction plan in the nation. This voluntary emissions reduction program will completely offset the emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2) and mercury (key emissions) from its three new coal-fueled power plant units. At the same time, the company will cut key emissions from existing coal-fueled power plants by 20% from 2005 levels. Luminant plans to spend $1 billion on its voluntary emissions reduction plan. Luminant will use new technology including selective catalytic reduction systems to control NOx and activated carbon injection equipment to control mercury.
Luminant supports the development of advanced clean coal technology and carbon capture and sequestration. This research and development on technologies is being carried on among Texas universities, technology companies and other research institutions. As an example, Luminant is supporting a carbon dioxide reduction demonstration project at the company’s Big Brown power plant. In conjunction with Skyonic, the company is testing technology that removes carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust and turns it into sodium bicarbonate. While testing is only on a small scale and research continues to see if this project could be commercially viable, this is a good example of how Luminant is testing tomorrow’s technology today. Click here for a news story about this demonstration project.
In addition, to spearhead development of zero-emissions coal generation, Luminant has issued a request for proposals for two IGCC commercial demonstration plants in Texas, joined the FutureGen Alliance, and applied to join the U.S. Climate Action Partnership.
Finally, Luminant has mined and restored 63,000 acres and planted 25 million trees in a land-reclamation program that has been recognized with more than 120 awards for environmental conservation. 2006 Earnings: $10.8B (parent company results)
Corporate Leadership: Mike Greene (Chairman & CEO)
Foundation representative: Wade Stansell
Year Company joined Foundation: 2004
History: Luminant’s roots stretch back to 1882, when a precedessor company turned on the first electric light in North Texas. Direct forerunners include Texas Power & Light (formed in 1912), Dallas Power & Light (1917), and Texas Electric Service (1929). These utilities merged in 1945 as subsidiaries of a new holding company, Texas Utilities Company, which was renamed TXU Corp. in 1999.
In February 2007, TXU announced it was being acquired by a group of investors led by Kohlberg, Kravis and Roberts, TPG, and Goldman Sachs. In October 2007, the merger was completed, and TXU became Energy Future Holdings Corp. In addition to Luminant, EFH’s businesses include:
• TXU Energy - Retail electric provider serving more than 2.1 million Texas customers.
• Oncor – Texas’s largest regulated electric delivery business, with 101,000 miles of distribution and 14,000 miles of transmission lines serving more than 3 million customers.
Luminant is a competitive power generation business, with more than 18,300 megawatts of generation capacity in Texas. Luminant is also the largest purchaser of wind-generated electricity in Texas and the fifth largest purchaser in the United States. Luminant is committed to generating reliable electricity with a variety of fuels including nuclear, gas, wind, landfill gas, and coal and exploring future investments in a variety of options including alterative energy and advanced technologies.
www.luminant.com


Millennium Synfuels
Headquarters: Brisbane, Australia & Salt lake City, Utah
Presence in Texas: Project discussions are currently underway.
Technologies they champion/innovate: Retorting & Hybrid Energy System
Corporate Leadership: Edek Choros (President & CEO)
Foundation representative: William Sarunic
Year Company joined Foundation: 2007
History: The company began under the leadership of Edek Choros as the Millennium Coal project in 1999 in Queensland Australia. In 2004, the Millennium Coal project was sold, eventually being acquired by Peabody. Assets from that sale were used to start Ambre Energy Australia. Millennium Synfuels began in 2005 as a subsidiary of Ambre.
Millennium Synfuels is developing technology to turn low-value coal into high-value char, hydrocarbon liquids, and gas. Their Hybrid Energy System allows them to convert coal into these products more cheaply than common coal-to-liquids technology.
www.millenniumsynfuels.com


Peabody
Headquarters and regional offices: St. Louis, Missouri (headquarters); regional offices in Gillette, Wyoming and Evansville, Indiana
Presence in Texas: The company ships coal to Texas.
Technologies they champion/innovate: Land Reclamation (Early innovators); Btu Conversion and clean coal technologies (coal-to-liquid, coal-to-gas, carbon capture and storage
2007 Earnings: $4.5B (Symbol: BTU)
Corporate Leadership: Gregory H. Boyce (Chairman & CEO)
Foundation representative: Kelly Mader
Year Company joined Foundation: 2007
History: The company was founded as a retail coal business in 1883 by 24-year-old Francis S. Peabody. In 1954 it merged with Sinclair Coal Co. but retained the Peabody name. In 1996, Peabody and UK-based Eastern Group joined to form The Energy Group plc. After a bidding war between PacifiCorp and Texas Utilities (later TXU) for The Energy Group in 1997, TU acquired Eastern and Peabody Group became independent. The company changed its name to Peabody in 2001.
Today Peabody is the world’s largest private-sector coal company. It supplies coal for 10 percent of America’s power and approximately two percent of the electricity worldwide. Peabody’s products and services reach 300 customer locations in nearly 40 American states and 18 countries on six continents worldwide.
www.peabody.com


Praxair
Headquarters and regional offices: Danbury, Connecticut
Presence in Texas: Praxair provides industrial gas products and services throughout the state and has its regional headquarters in Houston. Praxair operates the largest Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Hydrogen pipeline system in North America throughout Texas and the Gulf Coast.
Technologies they champion/innovate: OxyCoal process technologies, Air Separation Plants for IGCC and OxyCoal power plants, CO2 processing and compression technologies, and integrated process controls systems for OxyCoal and IGCC.
2007 Earnings: $9.4B (NYSE: PX)
Corporate Leadership: Stephen F. Angel (Chairman, President, and CEO)
Foundation representative: Chuck McConnell PX Vice President OxyCoal and IGCC technologies also (CCTFT Chairman)
Year Company joined Foundation: 2006
History: Praxair (from the Greek word "praxis", or practical application, and "air", its primary raw material) was originally founded in 1907 when it was the first company in North America to commercialize cryogenically separated oxygen.
The company introduced the first distribution system for liquid gas in 1917, and developed on-site gas supply by the end of WWII. In the 1960s, Praxair introduced non-cryogenic means of air separation, and since then has continued to introduce innovative applications technologies for various industries.
Today, with over 28,000 employees in over 30 countries, Praxair is the largest industrial gases company in North and South America and one of the largest worldwide. The company supplies atmospheric, process and specialty gases as well as high-performance coatings and related services to a diverse range of customers around the world.
Praxair serves a wide scope of industries, including metals, healthcare, food & beverage, energy, aerospace, chemicals, electronics, manufacturing, and others.
www.praxair.com


Tenaska
Headquarters: Omaha, Nebraska
Presence in Texas: Tenaska has developed four generating plants in Texas and continues to own and operate two, Tenaska Frontier Generating Station near Shiro and Tenaska Gateway Generating Station near Mt. Enterprise. A third plant, the Tenaska Kiamichi Generating Station near Kiowa, Oklahoma, also supplies electricity into Texas. Tenaska's power marketing company, Tenaska Power Services Co., is based in Arlington, along with Tenaska's Business Development Group. Tenaska has more than 180 employees in Texas.
Tenaska's Trailblazer Energy Center, proposed near Sweetwater, would be the first new conventional coal-fuled power plant in the U.S. to use carbon management technology on a commercial scale. If built, the plant would be designed to capture 85 to 90 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. The CO2 would then be dehydrated, compressed and delivered via pipeline to West Texas oil fields for use in enhanced oil recovery. Fueled by low-sulfur coal and equipped with an efficient supercritical steam cycle for generation, the Trailblazer Energy Center would meet or emit less than all Texas and federal environmental standards. For more information about the Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center, visit www.tenaskatrailblazer.com.
Technologies they champion/innovate: Tenaska's development efforts include clean coal technologies such as carbon capture and integrated gasification and combined cycle (IGCC) technologies.
Tenaska was listed by the Natural Resources Defense Council in 2008 benchmarking studies as having the best record among companies in the U.S. that generate power from fossil fuels for controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and as one of the top performing companies for controlling emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide.
Financial Picture: $11.6B gross revenues in 2007 (Privately held)
Corporate Leadership: Howard L. Hawks (Co-founder, Chairman and CEO)
Foundation representative: David Fiorelli (President and CEO - Business Development Group)
Year Company joined Foundation: 2008
History: Tenaska was founded in 1987. Fortune and Forbes magazines recently ranked Tenaska as the nation's 25th and 26th largest privately-held company, respectively. The company has developed 9,000 MW of power generation and currently manages and owns in partnership with other companies 10 electric-generating facilities in six states and one foreign country, totaling 6,800 MW.
Tenaska affiliates also market natural gas, electric power and biofuels, with Tenaska's natural gas marketing affiliate rated as one of the top ten natural gas marketers in North America. Tenaska's electric power marketing company provides management and marketing services for approximately one-third of the wind generation market in Texas. Affiliates are also involved in private equity fund and acquisition management, fuel supply, gas transportation systems and electric transmission development.
www.tenaska.com


Russell and Sons
Headquarters: Longview, Texas
Presence in Texas: Based in Longview, Texas, Russell & Sons’ scale of operations includes environmental reclamation, civil construction, and surface mining capabilities ranging from engineering to all elements of operational support. The company owns and operates a large fleet of heavy earth moving equipment.
Technologies they champion/innovate: Russell & Sons developed both techniques and equipment through a U.S.-funded technology transfer program designed to provide industry with better methods of restoring surface mined land. Independently the company has designed and patented tools for mine restoration and other large earth moving applications.
Corporate Leadership: Mark Russell (President)
Foundation representative: Mark Russell
Year Company joined Foundation: 2004
History: Established in 1945, Russell & Sons has operated in seven states as a general contractor and service provider to both public and private markets. In 1975, Russell & Sons was contracted by the United States Bureau of Mines to develop new technologies and methods to improve reclamation techniques utilized in coal/lignite surface mines. Since that time the company has established itself as a lead service provider for mine operators in both Texas and Louisiana.
Today, as a contributor to the process of providing Texans with low cost and reliable electricity, R&S believes the future economic and environmental balance rely on new technologies to utilize our most abundant resource. The company is proud to support the efforts of Governor Perry and Commissioner Williams in this important cause.
www.russellandsons.com


Westmoreland Coal Company
Headquarters and regional offices: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Presence in Texas: Jewett Mine (Former FutureGen candidate)
Technologies they champion/innovate: Technologically and Environmentally advanced surface lignite mining and reclamation
2006 Earnings: $393M (Symbol: WLB)
Corporate Leadership: Keith E. Alessi (Chairman & CEO)
Foundation representative: J. Denny Kingsley, P.E., VP Engineering & Environmental Services; Ches Blevins, Alternate Representative
Year Company joined Foundation: 2004
History: Westmoreland Coal Company was founded in Pennsylvania in 1854. The completion of the Pennsylvania Railroad at that time was instrumental to the company’s creation, and all of the company’s founders were affiliated with the railroad to some degree. In 2001, the company acquired the Jewett, Texas mine, whose proximity helped make that community one of the four finalists for the FutureGen project.
Today, Westmoreland is the nation’s ninth-largest coal producer, with mining operations in Montana, North Dakota, and Texas. It also has eight independent power projects generating 867 megawatts of electricity.
www.westmoreland.com
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