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Nov 13, 2007 7:18 am US/Central

Big Stone Backers To Go Before Minn. Regulators

ST. PAUL (AP) ― Backers of a proposed coal-fired power plant in northeastern South Dakota go back to Minnesota regulators today with a new plan.

They had to downsize the Big Stone II project after two partners dropped out, leaving five remaining partners. And they're figuring something new into the project -- the cost of carbon dioxide emissions.

Project spokesman Dan Sharp says there isn't a federal or state program now that restricts carbon dioxide in the air -- but it's likely that there will be one at some point.

Sharp says Big Stone is using a figure suggested by the Minnesota Department of Commerce, of $9 a ton for carbon emissions. Critics say that figure is way too low.

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission will make a decision on the plant after the first of the year.



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