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Energy Officials Meet With FutureGen Group
Just the fact that a meeting was held is a good sign. That's what an Illinois official involved in the FutureGen project is saying. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu met Monday with members of the FutureGen Alliance. The FutureGen project was supposed to be sited in Mattoon, but the Bush Administration stopped the project, saying cost overruns led it to want the project broken up into several smaller projects.

Warren Ribley, director-nominee at the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, says the meeting could bring Mattoon closer to winning the project again as a single cutting-edge coal-to-energy plant. He says he still believes Chu will sign a "record of decision" and put the project back in play.

Mattoon won the project over another Illinois site (Tuscola), and two in Texas in 2007.

(Illinois Radio Network)
03 30 09 by Newsroom
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