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GILBERTON — Even though "syngas" may be the fuel of the future, John W. Rich Jr. is still struggling to build a plant to manufacture it in Schuylkill County.
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If Senate Republican Conference Chairman Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania has his way, Gilberton, Pa., will soon boast the nation's first facility capable of transforming coal waste into clean diesel fuel and electricity, thanks in part to a provision he inserted into the pending $81 billion FY05 emergency supplemental spending bill.
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GILBERTON, Pa., April 18 /PRNewswire/ — WMPI Pty., LLC which is in the process of implementing a coal gasification based liquid fuels production facility, today announces the conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with SASOL, an integrated oil and gas company with substantial chemical interests.
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The Los Angeles Police De partment is desperate to add new police officers, according to The Los Angeles Daily News. But recent steep increases in gasoline prices have hit the department hard, representing the equivalent cost of hiring 75 cops.
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WMPI Pty., LLC is involved in the development of coal gasification based liquid fuels production facilities. Today WMPI announces the conclusion of memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc. (Shell GSUS), a member of the Royal Dutch/Shell group of companies.
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WMPI Announces Receipt of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Air Permit Approval for the WMPI Pty., LLC Gilberton Project
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WMPI Pty., LLC, is in advanced development of coal gasification based coal and waste coal to liquid fuels facilities, today announces the receipt of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Air Permit Approval for the WMPI Pty., LLC Gilberton Project.
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Approval Gives Go Ahead, Pending Financial Closing, for Coal to Ultracleanfuels(TM) Production Facility to be Built in Schuylkill County Pennsylvania GILBERTON, Pa., March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- APPROVAL WMPI Pty., LLC, in advanced development of coal gasification-based coal and waste coal to liquid fuels facilities, today announces the receipt of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Air Permit Approval for the WMPI Pty., LLC Gilberton Project.
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Investing in Domestic Security through Energy Infrastructure Development
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The Washington Coal Club is pleased to announce its February 9, 2005 meeting will feature John Rich, President of WMPI PTY., LLC.
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Secretary Abraham Visits Future Site of Coal-to-Oil Facility
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US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham on October 26, 2004 met with officials of WMPI Pty., LLC at the company's future site of a 5,000 barrel per day waste coal-to-oil facility in northeastern Pennsylvania.
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FRACKVILLE — U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham toured the John B. Rich Memorial Power Station in Mahanoy Township on Tuesday, visiting the site of what is expected to bring jobs and new technologies to Schuylkill County.
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GILBERTON, PA-July 25, 2004 — Cars running on coal? It could happen in this country – some day, and a Pennsylvania company hopes to lead the way.
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Plant to Turn Schuylkill County Coal Waste Into Fuel
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WEST HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — In the next three years, mountains of coal waste in Schuylkill County could be converted into millions of gallons of diesel fuel as a new coal-to-diesel plant comes on line.
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A Pennsylvania company is considering locating a coal-to-diesel project in Logan County that could bring at least 150 permanent jobs, a company official said.
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GILBERTON — Groundbreaking for the first coal-to-oil plant in the United States could take place as early as this spring.
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They just love it.
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Letter of Intent Signed for Future Projects
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GILBERTON — The endorsements for John W. Rich Jr.'s $612 million coal-to-oil project keep coming. First, Rich got a $100 million grant from the federal government. Then, he received kudos from the U.S. Department of Energy on a recent visit to the Gilberton site. And now the project is getting the thumbs up from a few critics.
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GILBERTON — It's a project that even the president endorses.
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Imagine if material from local coal waste banks could be turned into diesel fuel, wax and sulfur?
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$27 million tax gift to Cabela's is misguided as an inducement
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State's billion-ton waste product taking on new life as source for diesel that can be part of energy future.
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Another Feather in Schuylkill Co.'s Hat
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The announcement that the federal government will allocate $100 million to the proposed coal gasification project near Gilberton is astonishing news. Think about it. $100 million on a single project. Amazing.
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With the United States on the verge of a war in Iraq, there is no better time for the nation to get serious about finding alternatives to Middle East oil.
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GILBERTON — John W. Rich Jr. was in a very good mood on Tuesday and deservedly so. Only the evening before he received word that his vision to turn coal wastes into clean transportation fuel will receive a $100 million federal grant to help finance the proposed $612 million project.
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A Schuylkill County company could soon lead the way to energy independence for the United States.
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Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter, a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, and Rick Santorum, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Republican Conference, announced today that the Department of Energy (DOE) has approved a $100 million grant to Waste Management and Processors, Inc. (WMPI), located in Schuylkill County, to develop a new coal-to-liquid transportation fuel production technology that has yet to be employed in the United States. The grant was provided through the DOE Clean Coal Power Initiative grant program.
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Coal-to-Fuels Co-Production Project Awaits Approval, Financing
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Waste Management and Processors, Inc. (WMPI) submitted a proposal for its proposed $612 million coal-to-fuels and power co-production project to the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Lab (NETL), and is now awaiting a decision to be made on Jan. 8.
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The Energy Daily and USEA presents:
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MOUNT CARMEL TOWNSHIP — A facility that would convert coal waste to diesel fuel and potentially lessen America’s dependency on foreign oil could be under construction as early as next year.
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President of WMPI John W. Rich discussed his project that will result in a facility with the power and technology to convert coal into oil during a presentation held Thursday at the John B. Rich Memorial Power Station.
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The "best-kept-secret national resource"
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PINE GROVE - "We can work together and prove that "coal" is not a four-letter word." Those were the words of Dan Blaschak, the vice chairman of the anthracite council and vice-president of Blaschak Coal Corp, who throughout the last Friday's tour of Schuylkill County, sang the praises of the clean-burning jet black resource.
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Regional lawmakers, coal magnates and environmental officials toured Schuylkill County Friday while learning numerous ways anthracite coal can replace the nation's dependence on foreign oil.
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A search for ways to decrease America’s dependence on foreign oil and increase the efficient use of domestic energy resources has led the members of Pennsylvania’s Task Force on 21st Century Energy Policy to Schuylkill County.
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Other coal operators, however, are looking to more traditional markets to survive | |
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Your Jan. 4 editorial, "Coal-to-desel idea promising," hits upon several critical points for which you should be commended.
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Whatever else it has meant for America, the Sept. 11 terrorism underscored the folly of U.S. dependence on Middle Eastern oil. And while some people believe it mandates drilling for petroleum in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other environmentally sensitive areas, others see the logic in developing legitimate alternative fuels, utilizing the kind of ingenuity and entrepreneurial skills on which America was built.
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The heart of Pennsylvania coal country isn't exactly famous for its fishy smells, and for good reason. Bony piles — the slag heaps of discarded coal mining debris — seem to be everywhere, standing alongside highways, spilling into back yards of shanties, surreptitiously sitting under stands of white birches, the only trees which enjoy growing in such astonishingly acidic soil.
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Legislation pending in the U.S. Senate could give a $100 million boost to the construction of a coal-to-oil plant in northern Schuylkill County.
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The savage terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 will affect America in thousands of ways. | |
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Ironically, much of the fuel that America uses to fight its war on terrorism may actually come from its former or current enemies in the Middle East, even while one of its largest domestic sources lies untouched under the frozen tundra of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
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 Coal Comeback Advocates say a plan before Congress would bring jobs to Schuylkill County and would lead to a cleanup of culm banks September 2, 2001 FULL ARTICLE
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John W. Rich Jr. is anxiously watching the progress of the national energy bill, approved by the U.S. House of Representatives in August and slated for Senate consideration this month. | |
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GILBERTON, Pa. - Like larger-than-life tombstones, the black piles of coal waste on the denuded hillsides that pock northeastern Pennsylvania mark the devastation left by decades of mining.
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Projects To Develop Electricity/F-T Diesel Co-Production Plants Move Forward |
Most people passing through the coal regions of northeastern Pennsylvania see piles of abandoned mine waste and think "environmental eyesore."
John W. Rich, Jr. looks at the same waste piles and sees barrels of zero-sulfur diesel fuel.
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 Bush statement heartens coal industry March 18, 2001 FULL ARTICLE
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Natural gas problems, growing energy concerns raise promise of resurrection after Clinton era.
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 Coal-to-oil plant may go up by 2003 November 3, 2000 FULL ARTICLE
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Santorum backs benefits for region. | |
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WMPI in Great Position for Funding, Holden says October 7, 2000 FULL ARTICLE
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Congress this week approved $95 million for clean-coal technology, and John W. Rich Jr. believes he can get enough of it to make a $312 million futuristic coal-to-oil plant on the Broad Mountain a reality.
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Coal idea tantalizing Coal veteran's $312 million effort could help make U.S. energy independent June 11, 2000 FULL ARTICLE
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Pottsville native John W. Rich, Jr. grew up in the anthracite coal fields of Schulykill County, and as a teen acquired a keen interest in coal and World War II.\
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Rich's plant given boost Coal-to-oil may get cash for Senate May 19, 2000 FULL ARTICLE
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Pennsylvania's junior senator has officially introduced a proposal that would provide a much-needed boost to a proposed coal-to-oil plant in West Mahanoy Township.
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NATION'S FIRST COAL WASTE TO CLEAN FUEL PROJECT SLATED FOR PENNSYLVANIA GETS BIG BOOST IN NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY ACT May 19, 2000 FULL ARTICLE
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GILBERTON, Pa (May 19) -- The nation's first proposed facility to convert coal waste or culm and silt to a clean diesel-like liquid fuel moved a step closer to reality this week when authorization for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help fund construction of the project was included in the National Energy Security Act of 2000.
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 From culm to clean fuel? $312 million ideal could translate into $1.10-a-gallon gas May 2000 FULL ARTICLE
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One lump of coal equals one pint of gas.
The idea sounds so simple you might wonder why nobody came up with it before.
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First plant would be built in Schuylkill County May 2000 FULL ARTICLE
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Waste Management & Processors, a member company of John Rich Family Enterprises, has proposed Schuylkill County as the site for America's first coal gasification and liquefaction plant.
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Motor Fuel From Culm is State Man's Goal Product Could Run Diesel Engines April 2, 2000 FULL ARTICLE
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The dramatic rise in fuel prices during the last several months has placed renewed emphasis on finding alternative energy sources to decrease the nation's dependency on foreign oil.
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Energy Department Selects 3 Projects to Develop 21st Century Early "Co-Production" Energy Plant August 11, 1999 FULL ARTICLE
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Concepts for an early precursor of a multi-product, 21st century energy facility will begin taking shape in three projects chosen today by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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U.S. Senate Support for Culm-to-Clean Fuel Moves Schuylkill County Project Closer to Reality July 20, 1999 FULL ARTICLE
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Santorum/Gorton Successfully Push for New Round of Clean Coal Technology Project; Measure Passed by Senate Includes Project Funding Mechanism. | |
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$47 million in tax incentives targeted for coal-to-oil plant Groundbreaking in fall 2000, 1,000 construction jobs seen May 12, 1999 FULL ARTICLE
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HARRISBURG - Construction of a $312-million coal-to-oil plant-America's first-may begin by fall 2000 after the General Assembly approved $47 million in tax incentives Tuesday.John W. Rich Jr., president of Waste Management Processors Inc.,gave that tentative starting date after a 15 percent tax credit for gasification/liquefaction,as the process is called, was included in a tax reduction bill that passed the state House of Representatives Tuesday by a vote of 198-6.Gov. Tom Ridge must still sign the legislation, but is expected to do so, perhaps today.
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Schuylkill County reinvention nears Pact with Sasol would start process February 18, 1999 FULL ARTICLE
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There's a nice symmetry to it.
For more than a century, Pennsylvania's anthracite fields fueled the nation.
Now, there's a chance -- one that seems to be getting better and better -- that we may be the site of energy to fuel the nation's future.
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NEWS RELEASE February 10, 1999 FULL ARTICLE
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Sasol Limited of South Africa and Waste Management and Processors, Inc., of Frackville, PA, are investigating an arrangement whereby Sasol would analyze the technical and economic feasibility of converting synthetic gas, derived from Pennsylvania anthracite waste and other carbonaceous feedstock, into high quality environment-friendly transportation fuels.
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Rich finds African Firm "ready." Massive mining company interested in coal-to-fuel project in Pennsylvania. September 29, 1998 FULL ARTICLE
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When John W. Rich Jr. accompanied a state delegation to South Africa earlier this month, the most he hoped for was to establish communications with industries there.
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COAL'S FUTURE -- Conversion process holds promise for jobs, environment, national security. March 16, 1998 FULL ARTICLE |
Pennsylvania continues to struggle with the consequences of it's one-time role as the nation's largest source of energy.
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