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Oh..Great - Our Access To Coal Is Only Limited By Imagination

Posted on September 08, 2007

There's enough unleased coal on federal lands in the Powder River Basin to feed the United States' current appetite for coal for 493 years, according to federal figures released Wednesday. Roughly 89 percent of that coal can be mined under certain restrictions and about 11 percent is off-limits from leasing, said the report by three federal agencies. On federal land, Wyoming has about 510 billion tons of coal, while Montana has about 40 billion tons. According to estimates based on U.S. Geological Survey figures, 95 percent of the resource is too deep to mine by conventional methods. So, ap...

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