As I was passing through Tuscola, Illinois today on my way back from Chicago, I stopped at Pizza Hut for dinner with my family. On the door to Pizza Hut was a sign for "FutureGen," and an exhuberant comment about how this proposed project will be great for the state and Tuscola. I don't know much about Tuscola, other than it being home to an outlet mall, but I wonder if its residents understand the implications of FutureGen. This project is a big "clean-coal" operation, in which there will supposedly be near-zero emissions from the coal that is converted into a gas. The problem is that any clean-coal project involves more dirty and dangerous coal mining and more waste products, such as sludge from the coal used. In addition, with even near-zero emissions, you still have emissions, including carbon dioxide. What is the plan with regards to sequestering the carbon dioxide so that this greenhouse gas is not released into the atmosphere? If it is going to be injected into the ground, Tuscola residents would probably want to check whether they are on an earthquake fault-line, as southern Indiana is. What happens if tons of carbon dioxide are injected into the ground in an earthquake zone, even if the fault-line is currently inactive? I'm not sure that the FutureGen masterminds even know the answer to that one. Given all of the open land in central and southern Illinois, perhaps towns like Tuscola could be in the running for wind farms, as opposed to vying for the FutureGen project.