Big. Stone. II. Dead!

[Erick Boustead]

HERE IS THE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

 

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091102006419&newsLang=en

Participating Utilities Announce Wind-Down of Big Stone II Project
BISMARCK, N.D.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MDU Resources Group, Inc. (NYSE:MDU) announced today that the Big Stone II Project, a planned 500-to-600-megawatt coal-fired power plant to be located near Milbank, South Dakota, and its associated transmission, will not be built. The project’s four participants include Montana-Dakota Utilities Co., a division of MDU Resources.

The project required additional participants to move forward; however none have committed.

Montana-Dakota President and Chief Executive Officer Dave Goodin said that, while it’s disappointing that Big Stone II will not be built, the utility has an adequate electric supply for the near-term.

“We have a purchased power agreement through 2015 that was to bridge us to Big Stone II going online; we still have that agreement in place,” Goodin said. “We will now look at other supply options that are reliable and cost-beneficial for our customers. We have plans to expand our wind production by 30 megawatts in 2010 and will review other generation options.”

The other Big Stone II Project participants were Central Minnesota Municipal Power Agency, Heartland Consumers Power District and Missouri River Energy Services.
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Party on,
Erick

[Robert Hemphill]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Robert Hemphill
Macalester College '11 - Political Science, Environmental Studies
hemphill...@gmail.com
847-757-6091

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

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[John Smith]

WOW! congratulations everyone who worked against BS2!!!
it's another good step in the right direction.
- John

On Nov 2, 5:57 pm, Robert Hemphill <hemphill.robe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
>
> Robert Hemphill
> Macalester College '11 - Political Science, Environmental Studies

> hemphill.robe...@gmail.com

> 847-757-6091
>
> "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we
> created them." - Albert Einstein
>
> Please consider the environment before printing this email.
>

> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Erick Boustead <erick.boust...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > HERE IS THE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
>

> >http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=new...
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> > *Participating Utilities Announce Wind-Down of Big Stone II Project *
> > BISMARCK, N.D.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MDU Resources Group, Inc. (NYSE:MDU)*announced today that the Big Stone II Project
> > *, a planned 500-to-600-megawatt coal-fired power plant to be located near
> > Milbank, South Dakota, and its associated transmission, *will not be built
> > *. The project’s four participants include Montana-Dakota Utilities Co., a

[Laura Bartolomei-Hill]

i put it up on itsgettinghotinhere.org

yeahhhhh!!!!!
comment the shit out of it!

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Laura Bartolomei-Hill
Sierra Student Coalition -- Executive Committee and Support, Outreach and Community (SOC)
Macalester College Student Government, Financial Affairs Commission, Chair
Macalester College '10
Laura...@gmail.com
www.ssc.org

[Laura Bartolomei-Hill]

Somebody should write a more analytic post cause mine was more just about my feelings hahaha

[Reed Aronow]

"we have plans to expand wind production" Yeah!
 

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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:37:13 -0600
Subject: Big. Stone. II. Dead!
From: erick.b...@gmail.com
To: mnstude...@googlegroups.com

[Robert Hemphill]

Here's an updated article about the utilities' wind development. They're engaging in a lot of lies and this isn't a great article, but anyway...

http://www.finance-commerce.com/article.cfm/2009/11/07/PostBig-Stone-II-disappointed-utilities-plot-renewable-energy-development

Robert Hemphill
Macalester College '11 - Political Science, Environmental Studies

hemphill...@gmail.com

847-757-6091

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

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