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The Mitchell plant installed its first sulfur dioxide-catching scrubber about one year ago and added a second last April, plant manager Irons said. And he is pleased with their performance.
“We are making better than designed capture,” he said. “We are at about 98 percent capture of SO2.”
Steve Walker, president of Walker Machinery, said he was preaching to the choir at the Belle headquarters Jan. 30, but drove home the message of evolving clean coal by telling his employees, "This is not your grandfather's coal industry."
Read more: Walker Machinery Hosts Friends of Coal Membership Drives
The Friends of Coal Organization kicked off a new campaign Wednesday at the headquarters of Walker Machinery in Belle. Although established several years ago, Friends of Coal continues to work toward forging a more favorable attitude toward the use of coal and coal mining in general.