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Clean Coal Technology (CCT) refers to technology that is being developed and used to reduce the environmental footprint of coal. Most of coal's impact occurs at the consumption end - power generation and cement manufacturing.
Canada and the private sector have invested significant amounts of money in the development of CCT's designed to enhance both the efficiency and the environmental acceptability of coal extraction, preparation and consumption. Currently the United States, Australia, Europe and Asia are leading the way in the development and use of CCT's.
But Canada is not standing still. For example:
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has developed a Clean Coal Technology Roadmap which provides an outlook to the future and identifies technology pathways needed to allow coal to be used as a competitive environmentally clean energy resource for the production of electricity.
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NRCan has also made financial contributions to projects by the Canadian Clean Power Coalition (CCPC). CCPC projects aim to demonstrate that coal-fired power can be produced with emission levels the same as a modern natural-gas-fired turbine plant and that CO2 can be captured and stored by applying commercial-scale technologies.
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A three-year $33 million research project aimed to find the cleanest ways to generate electiricty from Alberta's vast reserves of coal is one of the first to be funded under Alberta's new $200 million Energy Innovation Fund. Read more........
Check out the following links for additional information on existing Clean Coal Technology initiatives:
U.S. Department of Energy
World Coal Institute
Australian Coal Association
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