[Hoot Gibson]

As I have stated more than once on here, there is one of those coal to gas plants getting ready to start, as we speak, in the Williamson area. The ground is broke, and the money is "in the bank". Permits are in hand. Workers will be on it in late 2012, early 2013. This is factual, first hand knowledge, on my part.


A link from WSAZ will explain a little about it.
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/35798779.html

Where is there currently such a plant in full production? I really hope that the proposed Gilbert plant makes it but I have been hearing rumors of such a plant being built in eastern Kentucky for years. When I see a politician taking credit for creating jobs in the private sector, I am reflexively skeptical.

It seems like it would make much more sense to locate such a plant in the Wyoming or Montana, where coal reserves are more abundant and cheaper than in the Central Appalachian coal fields, where reserves are declining and becoming very expensive to recover.