Activist Environmentalists Happy With $1 Million In Cash: Won't Contest Minnesota Refinery Upgrade

The Dickinson Press is reporting.

Opponents in the ring:

• In the light trunks: MCEA and EIP (activist environmental groups)
• In the dark trunks: Flint Hills Resources

What they want:

• The light trunks: $1 million
• The dark trunks: permission to upgrade its Pine Bend refinery in suburban Rosemount

So, what is Pine Bend?

It's one of the largest in the Upper Midwest and produces about half of Minnesota's transportation fuels and a significant share of the fuel used in the Dakotas and Wisconsin, Flint Hills spokesman Jake Reint said. It processes crude oil from Canada and North Dakota.

The proposed $400 million project is aimed at letting the refinery produce closer to its design capacity of 320,000 barrels per day.

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From wiki:

The Pine Bend Refinery is the largest oil refinery in Minnesota, located in the Twin Cities suburbs of Rosemount and Inver Grove Heights next to southern split of U.S. Highway 52 and Minnesota State Highway 55. The refinery is notable for being the largest in the United States to be located in a state without any oil wells. Overall, it ranks 14th in the country as of January 1, 2005, with an input capacity of 265,000 barrels (42,100 m3) per day. 

The facility is owned by Flint Hills Resources, a subsidiary of Koch Industries (pronounced the same as "Coke"). It is colloquially referred to as the "Koch Refinery."