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Polluting colby pulling the carbon generated by burning it into the smokestacks and storing it underground. we actually visited this very plant way back in 2014 to check out the much hyped project. even then it was wildly optimistic and very overbudget. >> this is the $5.6 billion kemper county energy facility. one of the most expensive domestic power plants ever built and perhaps clean coal's best hope. all went to eastern mississippi, see it firsthand. >> there is nobody in the world who is doing more to try to combat carbon emissions. when it opens, the kemper plant is supposed to capture 6...

Politics for 15 years. great to have you on. first of all, i have to say, like, even by the standards of the kind of projects, this would really seem like a complete cluster. like you have a doj investigation. $7.5 billion. they implode the thing. it never did at all what it was going to do, right? >> they sheepishly sort of switched the plant over to burn natural gas. like never mind. the whole thing is a mull i began. $7.5 billion mulligan. >> this embodies a lot of what people is saying about clean coal. this was essentially a phrase created so as to prop up a coal industry that was on its ...

Will be industrial facilities that are emitting co2 that we don't yet know how to do those industrial processes in a zero carbon way, so we have no choice but to carbon capture the carbon and bury it. so we do have to -- the idea that you have to use it to keep coal plants alive was always a farce. coal plants are already the most expensive way to get power, if you bolt one of these facilities onto it and miraculously get it to work, work best-case can area it's billions of dollars and an energy penalty -- creates to run the carbon capture facility. so, the whole idea of clean coal was always ...

Version of reality. >> the plan that was a central feature of then president obama's climate plan, that supposedly in the way of clean coal, kept looming billions over its to -- the timeline for completion kept getting pushed back as the power company tried and failed to get a running. in 2016, the security and exchange committee opened an investigation over the costing delays. into enough 2017, mississippi shower finally admitted to defeat and dismiss expended all coal operations. nearly two years later the department of opened investigation into the plant, and now finally here we are at the ...

Check out the much hyped project. and even then, it was wildly optimistic and very over budget. >> this is the 5.6 billion dollar camper county energy facility. one of the most expensive domestic power plants ever built. and perhaps clean coal's best hope. all in went to eastern mississippi to see it firsthand. >> there is nobody in the world to do more, to try to carve that carbon emissions in an efficient. way >> when it opens, the camper plant is supposed to capture 65% of the carbon dioxide it generates. giving it a carbon footprint similar to natural gas. >> this will be when it comes onl...