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{{#Badges: CoalSwarm}} The FutureGen Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)(3) comprising 9 major coal and power companies seeking U.S. Department of Energy funding for the construction of the FutureGen demonstration carbon capture and storage power plant at Mattoon, Illinois.
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FutureGen Alliance Members
The DOE's private-sector partners on this project are[1]:
- Anglo American (UK)
- BHP Billiton (Australia),
- China Huaneng Group,
- CONSOL Energy,
- E.ON U.S.,
- Foundation Coal,
- Peabody Energy,
- Rio Tinto, and
- Xstrata Coal (Australia).
Personnel
Staff
- Michael J. Mudd, CEO, FutureGen Alliance
- Lawrence Pacheco, listed as a media contact on press releases.
Board Members
- Paul W. Thompson, Chairman of the Board
- Chris M. Hobson, Vice Chairman of the Board
- Steven Winberg, Secretary and Treasurer
- Paul Champagne,
- Mark Davies,
- Chris Ellefson
- Jeff Gerard
- Samantha Hoe-Richardson
- Bradley Jones
- Frederick Palmer,
- Scott N. Smith,
- Greg A. Walker,
- Jun Xiao
FutureGen Alliance Lobbyists
The Center for Responsive Politics lists the FutureGen Alliance's lobbyists between 2007[2], 2008[3] and 2009[4] and the reported expenditures as having been:
- Susan Carver $60,000 (2007), $160,000 (2008), and $40,000 (2009); and
- Gephardt Group $30,000 (2007), $95,000 (2008), and $20,000 (2009).
FutureGen Alliance PR Advisors
Dittus Communications, which is now known as FD Americas Public Affairs, boasts on its website that FutureGen has been one of its clients.[5]
Contact Details
Website: http://www.futuregenalliance.org/
Related SourceWatch Articles
References
- ↑ "Alliance Members", accessed April 2008.
- ↑ "Futuregen Industrial Alliance", OpenSecrets.org, accessed June 2009.
- ↑ "Futuregen Industrial Alliance: 2008", OpenSecrets.org, accessed June 2009.
- ↑ "Futuregen Industrial Alliance: 2008", OpenSecrets.org, accessed June 2009.
- ↑ FD Americas Public Affairs, "Energy and Environment", FD Americas Public Affairs website, accessed June 2009.
