AIR FORCE DELAYING DECISION ON MALMSTROM SYNTHETIC FUEL REFINERY

/ January 23, 2009 at 5:00 AM
Air Force officials have delayed a decision originally scheduled for this month on whether to build a multibillion-dollar, privately owned coal-to-liquids jet fuel refinery on unused land at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, a service official told Inside the Air Force . Air Force Times , citing a service spokesman, reported this week that the Air Force was expected to announce the results of the decision on Jan. 21. The decision -- coming in response to an early 2008...

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