The Tenaska group officially called off the power plant project, which would have brought hundreds of jobs and billions of dollars in investment to Christian County. Taylorville Mayor Greg Brotherton tells Regional Radio News that he got word last week from Bart Ford, Vice President of Development for the Tenaska Group:

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The project would have required passage of special legislation to implement. It was opposed mainly by environmental groups like the Sierra Club, and by Exelon, the company giant which stood to lose millions of dollars had the plant been built,