...thought it was about time to start the 'UCG thread'!
Plus the fact that the "information" in the article below is complete crap!
P.
http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Coal- ... story.html
Coal firm's bid to produce energy from under estuary
South Wales Evening Post, Tuesday 25th September 2012
A COMPANY wants to investigate whether coal under the Loughor Estuary can be "gasified" to produce energy.
Cluff Coal has applied to the Coal Authority, which owns the UK's coal seams, for a conditional underground coal gasification licence.
It's still very early days, and the Coal Authority is waiting for more information from the London-registered company before determining the application.
If it awarded Cluff Coal a conditional licence, the company would have to satisfy local authorities and the Environment Agency, among others, of its plans before being able to test drill.
A Cluff Coal spokesman said: "The Government is keen to look at all sorts of different technologies to produce gas. We think underground coal gasification is something that can be progressed."
Cluff Coal has applied for 18 licences in different parts of the UK. Underground coal gasification, said the spokesman, had been demonstrated on a commercial basis in the US.
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-- most recently in the Australian state of Queensland.