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Governor Daniels speaking at Green Energy Summit

Indianapolis- Governor Mitch Daniels was set to deliver opening remarks Wednesday at a first-of-its-kind summit for Indiana on green energy.

The state is partnering with energy, business, environmental, industrial and academic communities to host a summit to discuss and develop the policy and regulatory components needed to facilitate use of the advanced technology known as carbon capture and sequestration.

The conference, which is expected to attract 150 participants, is being held Wednesday and Thursday at the University Place Conference Center Auditorium on the IUPUI campus.

Governor Daniels will open the conference today at 1 p.m. He will discuss Indiana's abundant coal supply and how the state can continue to build a green infrastructure that includes clean coal technology.

Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers will speak at 1:30 p.m. and be followed at 2 p.m. with the keynote address that will be given by Senator J. Bennett Johnston, who served Louisiana from 1972 to 1997 in the United States Senate. Johnston chaired the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources from 1987 to 1995 and managed hundreds of energy bills that went through the Senate.

Carbon sequestration is a process that provides for the long-term storage of carbon underground, reducing the build up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Duke Energy has proposed a carbon capture and sequestration study as a part of its Edwardsport Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle plant.