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Wyoming has spent years doubling down on coal by embracing a technology called carbon capture. One of the state-led efforts to build up the burgeoning tech came through a competition called the NRG COSIA Carbon X-PRIZE - a $20 million competition that s set to finish April 19. The XPRIZE has officially been in motion since 2015. In 2018, our energy and natural resources reporter Cooper McKim began to follow the competition. Through the years, he s put together an in-depth series called Carbon Valley starting with this episode you re about hear. Listen to more episodes by subscribing to Carbon Valley wherever you get your podcasts. ....
7:15 Cooper McKim: So before we get into carbon capture, I wanted to start with the year 2008. When you were Governor, and [coal production began its decline in the Powder River Basin], do you remember that year as being significant? And as that marking something that was bigger than just a momentary drop? Dave Freudenthal: Well, the reality is you could see the effects both in Wyoming and nationwide of the results of horizontal drilling and fracking. And you could figure out that natural gas was going to be a fairly intense competitor for coal because, at the end of the day, utilities are agnostic about fuel source, they really aren t attached to one fuel source or another, they re attached to the cheapest capacity for generating electricity. The second thing is that obviously, the Bush administration had chosen to support production tax credit for renewables. And what was clear is that they were not going to provide the same kind of incentives for the burning of coal and ....