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State Officials Happy FutureGen Project Starting Again
Mattoon can start celebrating again. So can a lot of entities in Illinois, now that the U.S. Department of Energy has decided that the FutureGen coal-to-energy project can proceed as a single site. Under the Bush Administration, the agency announced that the project would be too costly, and pushed to have the project broken up into several sites.

Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity deputy director of coal development Bill Hoback says he and his team were "thrilled" to hear of the turn-around. He says state government will provide help and information when needed, but says the next movement needs to come in engineering.

This project could take four years. Carbon sequestration is the key to this project, with carbon dioxide to be pumped into layers of rock beneath the surface to keep it from getting into the atmosphere. FutureGen is touted as being one of the top advancements in clean coal technology.

(Illinois Radio Network)
06 13 09 by Newsroom
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