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New council, City voices, new questions, concerns about Epitome Energy
Mike Christopherson
Epitome Energy founder and CEO Dennis Egan was peppered with questions and concerns involving his proposed soybean crush venture on Crookston’s southern edge at this week’s Crookston City Council Ways & Means Committee, and two of the newest voices in the city hall council chambers – Ward 1 Council Member Kristie Jerde, elected in November 2020, and City Administrator Amy Finch, who started in October 2020 – were the most vocal.
As he did earlier this spring at a CHEDA Board meeting, Egan, who’s been working for around four years on his Crookston development, offered an upbeat update – i.e. emerging from a historically bad 2019 harvest followed by the COVID-19 pandemic – on Epitome’s pending submission of an air permit application and Environmental Assessment Worksheet to the state, its equity drive, and changes in the scope and focus of what the $300 million, 42-milli
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