After 3 years of community engagement and action by GARD, along with legal assistance from Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) and the Conservation Law Center (CLC), Fulcrum’s Centerpoint plant will not be built on Gary’s Lakefront in Buffington Harbor.

The announcement came after Fulcrum’s Sierra plant in Nevada failed to produce jet fuel from garbage. In late May 2024, Fulcrum shut down the Sierre plant and laid off its workers. After defaulting on loans and bond issues, the company then failed  to close on city-owned property designated for the plant. Ultimately IDEM revoked itrs air permit for the Gary plant.. 

As a result,  the Fulcrum Centerpoint plant will not be built.

“We said from the beginning that the technology Fulcrum was promoting is unreliable, unproven, dangerous, and would not work. There was plenty of scientific evidence to support this view for any who cared to investigate..” said Dorreen Carey, president, Gary Advocates for Responsible Development (GARD).