Proposed ethanol pipeline to extend into SD

Chicago Tribune
By DIRK LAMMERS | AP Energy Writer
2:53 PM CDT, July 17, 2009

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The nation's largest biofuels producer and a Tulsa-Okla.-based pipeline company are expanding the route of a proposed $3.5 billion dedicated ethanol pipeline into South Dakota, the companies said Friday.

Poet LLC and Magellan Midstream Partners LP are studying the feasibility of the 1,800-mile pipeline, which is dependent upon studies addressing technical issues and Congress revising the U.S. Department of Energy's loan guarantee program, the companies say.

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