BISMARCK, N.D.
After seven years of planning, a coal company has suspended development of a 500-megawatt power plant in southwestern North Dakota because of uncertainty about federal carbon dioxide rules, a company official says.
Westmoreland Power Inc. is returning $562,500 in state subsidies for the Gascoyne project, said Keith Alessi, the executive chairman of parent company Westmoreland Coal Co. The money came from a North Dakota research fund that is financed by a tax on coal mining.
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