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Quake gives FutureGen fresh study data

By Tim Mitchell
Saturday April 19, 2008

MATTOON – Throughout the process to identify sites for the FutureGen clean-coal plants, alliance officials stressed the importance of finding a location that was safe from earthquakes.

When the FutureGen Alliance announced in December it had chosen Mattoon for its near-zero emissions power plant, FutureGen Chief Michael Mudd said the low level of seismic activity made Coles County ideal.

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