Today, by a 3-2 vote, the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) put on hold advancing a $3 billion clean energy facility on Chicago’s Southeast Side. Chicago Clean Energy is a gasification plant that will produce substitute natural gas from Illinois coal and other products, positioning Illinois as a leader in cutting-edge, clean energy technology.

The Chicago Clean Energy project team will now re-evaluate its next step, in light of the Commission’s vote, the positive comments from the Chairman and each of the Commissioners about the merits of the project, and the fact that four of the five Commissioners took the extraordinary step of requesting that the parties file an application for rehearing. The ICC expressed a desire for more time to consider the issues.

 

Last Wednesday on Chicago’s Southeast side, Gov. Quinn signed a piece of legislation expected to create 1,500 and save Illinois consumers more than $100 million dollars.

 

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn (D) on July 13 signed a revised bill that would enable construction of Leucadia Corp.’s proposed US$3 billion, 43.5 billion cubic feet/year synthetic natural gas (SNG) plant in Chicago.

According to the legislation, the project developers must guarantee that the resulting SNG would save natural gas consumers more than US$100 million over 30 years.

 

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Starting in the early 1970s and through most of the 1980s, Ted Stalnos was able to raise a family on the money he earned working at LTV Steel’s coke plant in Chicago’s East Side community.

 

(AP) — Gov. Pat Quinn has signed legislation that could lead to the construction of a new plant in Chicago that converts coal to natural gas.

 

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