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...shutdown was triggered by a dispute between the machinists union and CSX Transportation, one of the nation's largest freight railroads, over wages and work conditions. Most other freight companies ceased operations, claiming that their many interconnections made it impossible for them to work without CSX. The unions countered that it was a lockout. The disagreement involves unions representing only about 20,000 workers, but 200,000 other rail workers were thrown out of work, and hundreds of thousands more were affected by the shutdown...
Amid all this disappointment came yet another prospect for survival. CSX Corp., parent of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, took an interest in Otisca as a possible source of fuel for a pilot cogeneration plant it was planning at the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia. As the nation's largest transporter of coal, CSX had an interest in promoting its use and export. Engineer Mack Shelor, an executive with CSX's energy resources and logistics division, learned through some contacts that Otisca was the only firm capable of producing a coal-based liquid fuel that would meet the specifications...
Shelor first put the CSX Greenbrier project up for Round No. 4 of the DOE Clean Coal grants, counting on one advantage Otisca had lacked: built-in private funding. But despite solid science and engineering, the project was not one of the nine applicants selected last September. DOE had chosen to husband its funds for larger programs designed to produce new power-plant technologies for beyond the year...
...Shelor and CSX did not give up on Otisca. For the past few months they have been negotiating a deal that would take advantage of a small chink in the monopoly armor of big utilities: IPPS, independent power producers, which are allowed by Congress to produce electric power and sell it to utilities. IPPS are the junkyard dogs of the energy business, producing power any way they can under the rubric of cogeneration and operating without many of the constraints placed on public utilities...
...contaminated cargo originated in 1989 when a train carrying acrylic acid and other chemicals derailed in Freeland, Mich. CSX Transportation of Jacksonville, Fla., cleaned up the mess and sent it to be landfilled. But members of Greenpeace and other environmental groups bird-dogged the train, and some protesters even chained themselves to it. Two weeks ago, South Carolina fined CSX $21,975 because the train was leaking what appeared to be a toxic liquid. Meanwhile the controversy has scared off four landfill operators so far. Last week the train rolled out of Sumter, S.C., like a rail-bound Flying Dutchman...