Indiana Advances Leadership in Clean Coal Technology

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Indiana Advances Leadership in Clean Coal Technology

Indiana's leadership in homegrown clean energy production moved another step forward today when Governor Mitch Daniels signed into law a measure that will bring new generation substitute natural gas technology to the state, provide billions in savings to energy customers and create 1,000 construction and 500 permanent jobs in southern Indiana.

"Edwardsport establishes our unique leadership in producing electricity from clean coal. Rockport will be first in gas from clean coal. In concert, these two facilities will make Indiana the world's clean coal leader," said Daniels.

The governor announced in October 2006 that a substitute natural gas company intended to build a facility in southern Indiana that would produce pipeline quality substitute natural gas (SNG). The proposed plant, to be located in Rockport, would:

* Provide $2 billion in private investment to southern Indiana for the plant.
* Create billions in savings for energy customers
* Produce 1,000 construction jobs, 200 full-time jobs at the plant, and hundreds more coal mining and related jobs.
* Operate with 99 percent fewer pollutants than a traditional coal plant. Should national coal policy mandate the reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2), the SNG plant is designed to capture 90 percent of its CO2 emissions.

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