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Illinois Town Dumps Plan to be Clean Energy Dump
Mattoon, Ill., has backed out of the $1.2 billion FutureGen project after it learned from federal officials that the town would not host the flagship clean-coal plant itself, but would merely be used as an underground carbon dioxide dump piped in from another location. Government officials said the town's decision would not significantly affect the broader FutureGen project. The original FutureGen project, launched by the George W. Bush administration in 2003, was originally supposed to demonstrate that carbon dioxide pumped out of a coal-burning power plant could be captured and stored at reasonable cost. But the Bush administration canceled the Mattoon project in 2008 after cost overruns. The project's backers had anticipated that Obama would give the "clean coal" plant another lease on life. So they can still blame Bush! Posted by: Bobby 2010-08-13 |
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