Alliance, local group buying land for FutureGen plant

MATTOON – Funding for FutureGen may be stalled, but the groups behind it are buying land for the clean-burning power plant by August.

The FutureGen Alliance and Coles Together will split the cost of the $6.5 million land northwest of Mattoon, announced Roger Gilchrist, the alliance's executive director of project development. He said the alliance wants to show that it is serious about building the state-of-the-art, clean-burning power plant. The news came at Coles Together's annual meeting Friday.

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