Coal-to-Liquids Project Making Progress

1/31/2011

The Tyonek Native Cooperation is looking into a way to develop coal around Tyonek into a liquid fuel. John McClellan with the Tyonek Native Cooperation explains the benefits of the fuel.

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The process is dependent upon a grant from the state to have the US Air Force certify the coal. McCellan says that this could be the largest privately funded project since the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.