Bosses at world’s most ambitious CCS plant kept problems secret for years
March 2, 2018
tags: CCS
By Paul Homewood
Executives at the world’s most ambitious “clean coal†plant knew for years about serious design flaws and budget problems but sought to withhold key information from regulators before their plans collapsed, according to documents obtained by the Guardian.
The Kemper plant in Mississippi – held up as the global model for a new generation of “clean coal†power plants – was the most expensive fossil fuel power plant in US history, with a $7.5bn price tag. Its owners, Southern Company, boasted it was “going to be the cleanest coal plant in the worldâ€, in the words of the CEO, Tom Fanning.
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