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TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION
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In addition to rail, truck, and water transportation of coal, other modes now in use are coal slurry pipelines and high-voltage electrical energy transmission froir mine-mouth power plants. When coal gasification or liquefaction achieves commercial status, the gas or liquid coal products will move to market by pipeline.
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C ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION Mine-mouth electric generating plants provide means for transporting coal energy to consumers in both the eastern and western United States by extra-high-voltage (EHV)
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Water requirements are an even greater limitation in the arid regions of the West and air cooling is being tried (i.e., the largest air-cooled power plant in the world is now under construction at the Wyodak property near Gillette, Wyoming; water for other uses is provided by the treated sewer effluent from Gillette)
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The Slurry Transportation Association is drafting language to submit to the 95th Congress proposing the right of eminent domain for slurry pipelines; however, the Office of Technology Assessment is making a study of the subject, and it is doubtful whether Congress will act until the report is issued. The proposed legislation will not give any special authorization for coal slurry pipelines to be built but will give them the right of eminent domain and, thus, the opportunity to compete with rail transport systems since without such rights, the pipelines very likely would not be permitted to cross railroad rights-of-way.
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