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Scheduled Tenaska Bill Stopped at the State House Yesterday Morning

SB 678 was scheduled to go to committee today at 10 AM in Room 114 at the Capitol.

Shortly after the meeting was called to order a motion was made to adjourn the meeting subject to reconvening at the discretion of the committee chairman.

Mary Renner the Executive Director of the Christian County Economic Development Corporation says that this could help get more support for the amendment to Senate Bill 678.

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Renner says that the report done by Pace Global shows that the Taylorville Energy Center will do little to no harm to consumers of electricity

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Senate Bill 678 was amended to make the plant a Natural Gas Plant at first, with the option of becoming a coal gasification plant in the future.

 

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