A former employee is suing to force a Mississippi utility to repay $382 million to the federal government. The money was meant to aid a failed coal-fueled power plant. Kelli Williams filed the lawsuit. She's a former construction manager who worked on the $7.5 billion Kemper County power plant for Southern Co.
FILE - This Nov. 16, 2015 photograph, an overview shows a section of the Mississippi Power Co. carbon capture plant in DeKalb, Miss., that has now been demolished. A former construction manager is suing to force Mississippi Power and parent Southern Co. to repay $382 million in federal aid given to the failed clean coal plant, saying the company lied repeatedly about the plant’s cost overruns and spiraling delays to subsidy payments coming.
“If DOE had known that defendants were intentionally deceiving the agency about the state of the Kemper project and were intentionally withholding accurate data about the project’s progress and viability, DOE would have ceased funding and supporting it,” The Kemper County power plant was supposed to be a world leader in turning soft coal into a gas and burning it to generate power, while removing climate-warming carbon dioxide and other pollutants.when the three-member Mississippi Public Service Commission in 2017 ordered it to stop building the gasifier and chemical removal unit and instead operate the plant by burning conventional natural gas.
Whistleblower actions under the False Claims Act are filed under seal with the private plaintiff seeking to recover money on behalf of the federal government.
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