High Plains Report

Bob Campbell
Staff Writer
Midland Reporter-Telegram

Texas backers of bringing the $1 billion experimental coal-fired FutureGen electrical plant to the Permian Basin will dance the "Texas Two-Step" to make it happen.

Competing against the Southeast Texas coal-mining town of Jewett and the railroad centers of Mattoon and Tuscola, Ill., regional efforts to put the plant north of the 1930s oilfield ghost town of Penwell were boosted at a Tuesday powwow in Washington. Penwell is 20 miles west of Odessa.

Midland Reporter Telegram