An excerpt:
" Perdaman plans to utilise environmentally friendly, best in class technologies that will transform sub-bituminous coal into urea by way of innovative and low emissions coal gasification technology,"
To emphasize a few, important, points:
They will be making the urea from - relative to WV bituminous coal - low-organic and high-ash Australian, sub-bituminous, lignite.
As we've noted as being possible, the conversion of coal to liquid chemicals and fuel, via several gasification and direct liquefaction processes, can be accomplished in an "environmentally friendly" way, with low emissions.
CTL is real, it is practical. It can be an environmentally sound, even beneficial, industrial process.