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Metro East has energy AND jobs

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By Tom Wolf, Executive Director,
Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Energy Council Blog
January 8th, 2010

If you have any lingering doubts about the link between energy development and economic development, please read this article from today’s St. Louis Business Journal.

It a blow by blow description of energy projects in the Metro East area — energy projects of all kinds — that are creating construction jobs or full-time, permanent jobs.

This is a message that we need to reinforce with legislators.  We can have more energy projects in the state if we create a regulatory structure that welcomes energy projects of all kinds.

Click here to visit the Illinois Chamber of Commerce Energy Council Blog.