FutureGen’s dead but battles over project rage on

摘要

The coal industry is pointing at the Department of Energy's decision to scrap the FutureGen 2.0 project as evidence against the viability of U.S. EPA's proposal to require carbon capture technology for all new coal-fired power plants. "This decision cannot be reconciled with the Administration's proposal to require CCS as the only acceptable technology for any new coal-fueled power plant in the U.S.," National Mining Association President Hal Quinn said in a statement. The reaction from coal and mining companies is just part of the fallout from yesterday's DOE announcement that it would no longer back the $1.6 billion high-profile project, focused on retrofitting a coal power generating unit in Meredosia, Ill., to capture 90 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions and store them underground (E&E Daily, Feb. 4).