Energy Seminar Thinking Ahead

WEEK TV (Peoria, IL)

By WEEK Producer
Story Updated: Oct 13, 2008 at 10:53 PM CDT

Can the Midwest play a big role in deciding what kinds of energy a future United States will use? The planners of an upcoming energy seminar in Peoria believe that could be the case.

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Sponsored by Peoria Next, the Dirksen Congressional Center and Bradley University, the seminar will bring together private and government energy experts. The focus will be on both energy strategy and energy sources.

"Coal. Two thirds of the state of Illinois has coal underneath it," Said Brad McMillian of the Institution for Principled Leadership. "How can we use clean coal technology to increase that energy sources as a part of our future national energy strategy."

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