SCRANTON TIMES TRIBUNE: Rural Pennsylvania has an ocean of natural gas below ground and will soon have electricity produced at the surface.
Inexpensive, available fuel begets power plants. The exploitation of gas a mile below the surface in the Marcellus Shale rock formation has attracted power generation companies proposing natural gas-fired power plants, each at a cost of hundreds of million of dollars.
Moxie Liberty LLC plans a 900-megawatt power plant in Asylum Twp. and another in Lycoming County, to be called Moxie Patriot. Future Power PA Inc. has a 300-megawatt plant planned for Schuylkill County and a sister company has plans for second in the same area. They are among the nine plants statewide that have applied to the state Department of the Environmental Protection. The Northeast, long at the end of the pipeline, is now on top of a huge natural gas reserve…
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