DKRW update tomorrow

Medicine Bow Fuel and Power, LLC (MBFP) will present their six-month update to the Industrial Siting Council (ISC) at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Hanna Recreation Center.

Last December, MBFP was awarded a 39-month extension on their permit to construct a coal to liquids fuel plant near Elk Mountain.

One condition of the permit was to hold a public update every six months. According to the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality/ISC public notice published in the Saratoga Sun, the public meetings are to include a progress report which includes a time line that has critical path key dates and significant events leading to the recommencement of construction for the project.

MCFP is part of DKRW, a parent company owned by former Enron employees.

The company has been planning the coal-to-liquid plant since 2007.

In June, Wade Cline, executive vice president of construction for DKRW, reported they were working on the Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) agreement and that Sinopec, the engineering company they had hired was not meeting deadlines. Sinopec was released and as of the June meeting DKRW was negotiating with other engineering companies. Since the June 26, 2014 meeting, DKRW has not made a public announcement about which company has been chosen for the EPC agreement.

The Front End Engineering Design (FEED) study, which is a detailed blueprint of the project was to be completed during the second half of 2014.

Cindy Wallace, Carbon County’s Economic Development Director, has not received any new information from Bob Kelley, vice president of DKRW. Kelley reported to Wallace in August of 2014, the company is still working on finding an EPC contractor and working on funding.

Calls to Cline had not been returned as of press time.

 

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