From today's News-Gazette, in the wake of yesterday's story:
A consortium of some of the largest coal producers and users in the world on Friday offered to pay a greater portion of the cost of the $1.8 billion FutureGen clean coal plant.
If the proposal is accepted by the Department of Energy, which previously was responsible for 74 percent of the costs, plans to build FutureGen in Coles County may proceed without future delays, according to a statement from U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson, R-Urbana.
"The Alliance's movement on this issue gives us momentum and strengthens our resolve to get this project back where it belongs," Johnson's statement said. "I am strongly opposed to the notion of breaking up this project into pieces as has been suggested by the Department of Energy once they found out Mattoon was the chosen site."
Discuss.
