North of 60 Mining News - The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North

A Homer electric cooperative is eyeing the closed Healy Clean Coal Plant as a future source of power.

The $300 million state-owned plant, located 78 miles southwest of Fairbanks, was built in the mid 1990s to tap the Usibelli Coal Mine and demonstrate environmentally conscious coal-burning technology.

The state shut down the plant after the Golden Valley Electric Association, which tested the f...