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Xcel, environmentalists square off over planned gas-fired power plant Company cites need for grid reliability; opponents push for end to fossil fuel. March 6, 2021 8:00am Text size Copy shortlink:
The rise of natural gas-fired power was long welcomed or at least accepted by both utilities and clean-energy groups. Gas vanquished coal, cutting both carbon dioxide emissions and wholesale electricity costs.
But to renewable-energy advocates, gas days are numbered at least as far as building big power plants such as the one Xcel Energy is planning in Becker, Minn.
They say an emission-free combination of new wind and solar coupled with a fleet of grid batteries for power storage is cheaper and just as reliable as a new gas plant.
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Last fall, Enbridge offered the Red Lake Band of Chippewa a lucrative deal if the tribe would drop legal efforts to quash the company s new pipeline across northern Minnesota. Red Lake said no.
In 2018, Enbridge made an attractive offer to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa to run part of the pipeline a replacement for its current aging and corroding Line 3 through its reservation.
Faced with the alternative of having the new Line 3 next door with no control over it, the tribe took the deal. But it has caused lingering bad feelings with other Ojibwe.