Not....

So, the FutureGen project is toast. And *apparently* the Undersecretary had some reasons for that. Would it be cost? Or perhaps that the site wasn't properly chosen?

Naw....

U.S. Rep. Tim Johnson, R-Urbana, and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., are irate after learning that Under Secretary of Energy C.H. "Bud" Albright said in a teleconference with stakeholders in the FutureGen project that the Energy Department was not interested in "building Disneyland in some swamp in Illinois."

So...who the hell is this guy?

Well, he's a graduate of George Mason University law school.

As Under Secretary, Albright will oversee the Department's Energy and Environment programs, including: the Offices of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Environmental Management, Fossil Energy, Legacy Management, Nuclear Energy, and Radioactive Waste Management.

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Albright comes to DOE from the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served as Republican Staff Director for the Committee on Energy and Commerce while working to address challenges facing the country's energy, environmental, telecommunications, and health industries. Albright was previously Vice President of Federal Affairs at Reliant Energy....

Never heard of Reliant Energy before?

Well, that's either because you forgot about the price gouging in California a few years ago or because it's a *Texas*-based utility company. You remember Texas? The *other* state in the running for this project.

Yah...color me *shocked* that this project was scrubbed after an Illinois site was chosen.