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Thursday, January 26, 2012
Environment - "Jobs vs. environment debate dominates hearing on coal gasification plant"
That is the headline to Thomas B. Langhorne's story in the Evansville Courier & Press on last evening's public hearing in Rockport on the air permit for the proposed coal gasification plant. It begins:
ROCKPORT, Ind. — Stern warnings of environmental harm clashed with appeals to create badly needed jobs Wednesday night at a public hearing about a proposed coal gasification plant in Spencer County.Here is a list of some of the earlier ILB entries on the project.The Indiana Department of Environmental Management public meeting and hearing attracted about 200 people to South Spencer High School.
At issue: whether the state agency's Office of Air Quality ultimately will issue an air permit for the proposed $2.65 billion plant, which would be located about 30 miles east of Evansville. The facility is intended and designed to convert Illinois Basin coal and petroleum coke into pipeline-quality substitute natural gas and liquefied carbon dioxide. The developer is Rockport-based Indiana Gasification, LLC; a subsidiary of the New York investment firm Leucadia National Corp.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 26, 2012 10:48 AM
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