Clean Energy Plans NatGas Electric Generation Plant in Lordstown

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Clean Energy Future, a company based in Boston, MA, had a "first date" night Monday in Lordstown (Trumbull County), OH. Clean Energy proposes to build an $800 million electric generation plant on 57 acres on Salt Springs road in Lordstown. The plant will be fired by natural gas from the Utica and Marcellus. Clean Energy was there to talk with town residents and to ask the village board to rezone the area so they can build. About 150 people attended date night to size up Clean Energy and their plan. If the board decides to approve the project, construction would begin in December 2015. However, the plant won't be completed and online until 2018. Yeah, it takes a long time to build these complex plants--which are made all the more necessary and urgent because of President Obama's war on coal and the EPA's strict new rules on burning coal. Here's how the first date went in Lordstown on Monday:

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