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Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

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Twin Metals mine study due mid-2014

Twin Metals is expected to be larger than the proposed PolyMet mine near Babbitt, which would be Minnesota's first copper-nickel mining operation if it wins all the necessary approvals.
by The Associated Press

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With White Bear as poster child, Minnesota tests new approach to limited water supplies

With White Bear as poster child, Minnesota tests new approach to limited water supplies

A new effort involving just about anyone who flushes a toilet from Lino Lakes to Woodbury is about to eclipse the scattered sprinkling limits and water-saving campaigns to rescue a shrinking White Bear Lake. And that could be just a first step in getting Minnesota residents, businesses and others to think differently about how they use water.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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What is your community’s most significant water problem?

What is your community’s most significant water problem?

“Even in the land of 10,000 lakes, water is no longer unlimited. Lakes shrink, groundwater drops, wells go dry or get contaminated. Some cities have to look harder for good municipal water or pay more to treat it. Twenty years ago these were isolated problems. But three-quarters of Minnesota’s residents get their water from aquifer-tapping…
by Michael Olson

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Energy independence? Careful what you wish for

Energy independence? Careful what you wish for

A long-sought goal of U.S. energy policy turns out to be a blend of good and bad.

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“Beneath the Surface:” Help us look at Minnesota’s pending groundwater challenge

MPR News’ Ground Level project is launching an examination of the growing concern that Minnesota’s groundwater — source of water to three-quarters of the state’s residents — is on a path that can’t be sustained.
by Dave Peters

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As ice melts, Arctic issues heat up

New sea routes beckon, as do mineral and energy opportunities.

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Fates of wild rice, mining intertwined in northern Minn.

Fates of wild rice, mining intertwined in northern Minn.

A 40-year-old state law limits how much of a mining byproduct called "sulfate" can be discharged into wild rice producing waters. Prompted by mining industry concerns that the standard is too stringent, the state has been giving it another look.
by Dan Kraker

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State's newest renewable energy plant converts manure, veggie waste

State's newest renewable energy plant converts manure, veggie waste

The plant in Le Sueur, Minn. uses tiny organisms to break down a a slurry of corn silage and manure to create methane gas to fuel four electricity generators that will send eight megawatts directly to the city's distribution system.
by Mark Steil

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