They were announced with great fanfare nearly six years ago: plans to build a high-tech plant in Rockport in southwestern Indiana that would use coal to produce billions of cubic feet of substitute natural gas a year for Hoosier homes and businesses.
The massive project would save consumers nearly $4 billion over 30 years, said Gov. Mitch Daniels, citing a study by Carnegie-Mellon University. It would help make Indiana "a leader in homegrown clean energy." The whole project could be built and selling gas by 2011.
But instead of being completed, the plant is still on the drawing board, running into growing opposition and awaiting environmental and financial approvals.
