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Editorial: Locals undecided on FutureGen

Abstract:
As the decision passes to give FutureGen the go-ahead, many local residents share concerns over the new one of a kind facility and its ideas of carbon sequestration. FutureGen is a new idea based around 30 years of research with the intentions of placing carbon dioxide, a byproduct of coal, almost 2 miles beneath the ground rather than letting it escape into our atmosphere contributing to global warming....

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Monica from ACCCE

posted 6/17/09 @ 2:00 PM CST

Despite what you may have heard or read, the FutureGen project has not been cancelled -- citizens and legislators from its proposed site of Mattoon, Ill. are continuing to work towards the original plan of building a commercial-scale coal-generated power plant using clean coal technology.

We know this because the America's Power team has been traveling around the country talking to the people who are behind the production of cleaner electricity from coal on the Factuality Tour.

Mattoon residents understand what a great boost the plant will be to the local economy – and how much the technology will mean to the rest of the world. Hear what they have to say at http://sn.im/factuality5.
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