Ill. Lawmakers Will Fight for Coal Plant - AP

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Source: Associated Press

Ill. Lawmakers Will Fight for Coal Plant

Wednesday January 30, 2008 10:31 AM

By JIM SUHR

Associated Press Writer

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Illinois lawmakers vowed to do everything
in their power to assure that a virtually emissions-free
power plant is built in central Illinois, after saying the
U.S. Department of Energy informed them it was pulling out
of the project.

“We will not go down without a fight,” Sen. Dick Durbin
said in a statement Tuesday that accused Energy Secretary
Samuel Bodman of “cruel deception.” Durbin also accused
Bodman of “creating false hope” in a project that he did
not intend to fund or support.

The FutureGen Alliance, a coalition of power and coal
companies, last month announced that the $1.8 billion, 275-
megawatt prototype power plant would be built in Mattoon
under a plan that called for the DOE to cover three-
quarters of the cost. The site was chosen over Tuscola,
Ill., and two sites in Texas.

But the DOE, frustrated by ballooning costs, wanted the
announcement delayed until the project could be redesigned
and costs reduced. The department also said it wasn't
ready to issue its final notice that Mattoon was
environmentally acceptable.

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1. Oh, good! So this means that all we'll have to contend with is

billions of tons of harmless CO2.

I'm sure the FutureGen Alliance is thrilled! Stupid bunch of fucksticks.... :grr: