 Deadline Monday: Stop the plan to make Illinois residents pay for a $3 billion dirty coal gasification plant. Dear Daniel, Illinois ratepayers could soon be forced to foot the bill for a new, three billion dollar coal-to-natural-gas plant in Chicago's southeast side. New York based Leucadia National Corporation wants to use costly and dirty technology to turn coal into synthetic natural gas, which consumers would then be forced to purchase at above-market rates. The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) has the power to protect Illinois consumers by rejecting Leucadia's outrageous plan — and it is taking public comments for the next few days before its likely decision on Tuesday. Deadline Monday: Tell the Illinois Commerce Commission to reject Leucadia's plan for making Illinois residents pay for a $3 billion dirty energy project. Click here to submit a public comment now. While Leucadia's Orwellian marketing materials refer to the proposed coal gasification plant as a "clean energy project,"1 the reality is that coal gasification is an energy-intensive process with greenhouse gas emissions more than twice as high as traditional, dirty coal plants. This plant would also use more than 10 million gallons of water from the Calumet River each day, while returning just two million gallons.2 Under the plan ICC is considering, Illinois residents would be forced to pick up the tab for this dirty coal project, potentially paying higher rates for decades. Understandably, many Southeast Chicago residents don't want the dirty Leucadia coal plant in their neighborhood,3 and they've been holding rallies and protests in opposition.4 Over the next few days, ratepayers throughout Illinois need to make sure the Illinois Commerce Commission knows that Illinois residents don't want to pay for Leucadia's dirty new coal gasification plant. Deadline Monday: Tell the Illinois Commerce Commission to reject Leucadia's plan for making Illinois residents pay for a $3 billion dirty energy project. Click here to submit a public comment now. With Chicago's Fisk and Crawford coal plants now scheduled to be retired later this year,5 Illinois has made real progress recently in the fight against dirty sources of energy. Allowing the dirty Leucadia coal gasification plant to be constructed at the expense of ratepayers would be a huge step in the wrong direction. Click the link below to submit a public comment and help build pressure on the ICC to stick up for Illinois ratepayers by rejecting Leucadia's dirty energy project.:
http://act.credoaction.com/r/?r=6883514&id=39603-2914033-DmRzQSx&t=8 Thanks for fighting the dirty Leucadia coal gasification boondoggle. Josh Nelson, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets 1. About Us, Chicago Clean Energy
2. Leucadia Coal Gasification Synthetic Natural Gas Plant, Sierra Club
3. Not all swayed on coal gasification plant plan, The Times of Northwest Indiana, 8/24/11
4. Residents protest coal gasification plant on Southeast Side, Medill Reports Chicago, 11/22/11
5. Fisk, Crawford Electric Plants To Shut Down In September, Chicagoist, 5/3/12 | 
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