Saturday, July 5, 2008 East Central Illinois

Towns reflect on their investments in FutureGen

By Tim Mitchell
Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:37 AM CDT

Millions of dollars and countless hours have been spent locally in efforts to land the $1.8 billion FutureGen coal plant in Illinois, a project that has now been abandoned by the Department of Energy.

"I wouldn't want to speculate about a specific figure, but millions of dollars have been invested in our site," said Angela Griffin, president of Coles Together.

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