(WASHINGTON, DC) — Senator John Hoeven, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, this week outlined North Dakota’s leadership in developing and deploying clean coal technologies for the nation. The Senator spoke on the Senate floor following President-elect Donald Trump’s remarks on the importance of clean coal, one of the nation’s most reliable, affordable and abundant energy resources, and its role in making the United States energy dominant.
Hoeven outlined his work over the past 15 years to advance North Dakota’s leadership in cracking the code on carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies to enable the next generation of clean, coal-fired electric power. His accomplishments include putting in place legal, tax and regulatory requirements to advance CCUS, making North Dakota the first state to be granted regulatory primacy for Class VI wells, to ensure CO2 is safely and securely stored below the surface, securing a demonstration grant from the Department of Energy to advance Project Tundra, enabling the coal-fired Milton R. Young power plant to capture and store 4 million metric tons of CO2 per year, and advancing Basin’s Dakota Gasification synfuels plant, the largest coal-based carbon capture project in the world, which is currently in operation and captures up to 2.25 million metric tons of CO2 per year.
