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WyoFile investigator tells WPR about “accounting irregularities” related to Two Elk project

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Wyoming Public Radio News reported earlier this month that the Two Elk Energy Park received its seventh permit-extension. The billion-dollar project was approved 16 years ago – intended to generate power from low-grade coal in the Powder River Basin – but it has never been built. The Two Elk project is a subsidiary of the Colorado-based North American Power Group, which cited the recession and legal challenges for the delays.

This week, however, WyoFile published a special report revealing that a federal stimulus to drill a research well to determine whether the Two Elk Site had potential for CO2 storage was suspended last January because of accounting irregularities, and more than $1 million have gone to pay salaries to businessmen leading the project, one of whom is Senator Mike Enzi’s son Brad. The project has been referred to a U.S. Attorney for Review. WyoFile co-founder Rone Tempest filed the report, and joins Rebecca Martinez on the phone from his home in Lander.

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