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Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

Getting to Green is an MPR News series that shares stories about Minnesota’s clean energy transition, including what needs to be done to get there.

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BP: More oil-collecting help converging on Gulf

BP: More oil-collecting help converging on Gulf

Help is on the way to bolster the work being done to contain the crude spewing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, including a tanker from the North Sea that will provide an important assist, the point man for the government's response to the disaster said Wednesday.

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Some NE Minn. officials glum over park land deal

While Gov. Tim Pawlenty and others are celebrating a deal to acquire land for a new state park on Lake Vermilion, some St. Louis County commissioners are brooding.

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Plans finalized for new state park at Lake Vermilion

Plans finalized for new state park at Lake Vermilion

A new state park in northeastern Minnesota could be open for hiking as soon as this fall. Gov. Pawlenty and a top U.S. Steel executive have finalized a deal in which the state will buy three thousand acres on the shore of Lake Vermilion for $18 million. Cathy Wurzer talked to Courtland Nelson,Director of Parks and Trails at the Department of Natural Resources, who estimated the park could have 300 thousand visitors a year.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Lessons learned from the oil spill

Lessons learned from the oil spill

Watch it on TV or follow it on the Internet, and the Gulf oil spill seems both surreal and far away. But essayist Peter Smith says the lessons of the spill apply right here in Minnesota.
by Peter Smith

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Long road to oil cleanup looms over Gulf Coast

Long road to oil cleanup looms over Gulf Coast

A wellhead cap at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico is slowly pinching off a geyser of oil spewing from the earth, but there's no containing much of the crude that's already escaped, a reality becoming increasingly evident on the region's beaches.

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Slideshow: The source and destination of Minnesota's oil

Slideshow: The source and destination of Minnesota's oil

While off-shore oil drilling has received a lot of attention recently because of its potential environmental costs, most of Minnesota's oil comes from Canada, where oil sands production also carries environmental risks. Crude oil arrives at the Flint Hills refinery in Rosemount, Minn. in a pipeline that runs more than 1,000 miles to Alberta, Canada.

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