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The March 23 meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Western Dredging Association (WEDA) highlighted the growth in demand for dredging services.

About 30% of all U.S. crude oil imports flow through Minnesota, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Flint Hills Resources, which operates Pine Bend Refinery, would use the energy produced by the 45 megawatt facility.

Business is starting to address the "turning point"

Still one of Minnesotas biggest carbon polluters, the suburban St. Paul refinery is no longer smelled before seen

Flint Hills Resources, a Koch Industries subsidiary that owns the sprawling Pine Bend Refinery south of St. Paul, was unanimously accepted into the Minnesota Solar Energy Industries Association last month by the group’s board.

(OPAL Fuels) OPAL Fuels LLC, previously known as Fortistar RNG and TruStar Energy, and NextEra Energy Marketing, LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC will build the first renewable natural gas production facility in Minnesota. The project will be located at a landfill owned by Republic Services, Inc. and interconnect with a pipeline owned by Xcel Energy, Inc. For many years, OPAL has collected and processed gas to generate electricity at the 255-acre Pine Bend Landfill in Inver Gr...

April 28, 2021News Two companies are partnering to build a facility to produce natural gas from a landfill and supply a pipeline in Minnesota. OPAL Fuels LLC, a Fortistar portfolio company, and NextEra Energy Marketing LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, announced April 28 plans to build the first landfill renewable natural gas (RNG) production facility in Minnesota. The project will be located at a landfill owned by Republic Services Inc., a leader in the U.S. environmental serv...

NextEra Teams Up with Opal Fuels for Minnesota RNG Project NextEra Energy Inc. is diving into the renewable natural gas (RNG) game with plans to develop a landfill gas capture facility with fuels distributor Opal Fuels LLC. The utility, the self-described world’s largest producer of wind and solar energy, plans to work with Opal to replace an existing power generation facility with a new RNG production development.  The project would be located at Republic Services Inc.’s Pine Bend landfil...

Get our free mobile app Its a place youve probably driven by many times when on Highway-52 but did you know its also a place 40 percent of all waterfowl and shorebirds in the US visit each year? I admit that ever since we put up a bird feeder in our yard, Ive become more interested in the many species of fine feathered friends that call Minnesota home. So when I read the statistic that nearly half of all shorebirds (and waterfowl) visit this spot in Minnesota, I was intrigued. Its the Pine Bend...