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By Bill Cohen - April 4, 2006 |
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Ohio has just revved up its campaign to convince the federal government to build the world’s first non-polluting coal-burning power plant here in the Buckeye State. At least 20 states are competing for the $1 billion project, but Governor Bob Taft has signed a new law that could help Ohio make a better sales pitch. The law allocates a million dollars to help pay for a drilling a test well that would hopefully prove that "underground Ohio” would be an ideal place to store a key waste product of burning coal. State representative Jimmy Stewart helped push the measure through the legislature, and he talks with statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen about the drilling. The campaign to bring the FutureGen coal-burning power plant to Ohio is being backed by groups that don’t always agree with each other. They include coal companies, labor unions, and environmental activists. Whichever state lands the non-polluting plant is likely to benefit with a thousand temporary construction jobs and a hundred long-term jobs, staffing the new facility. |
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Rep. Jimmy Stewart (R-Athens) and Bill Cohen (1:31) 
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