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<br /> INSIDE THIS ISSUE: SOUTHERN MINNESOTA GIVES
<br /> BIXBY ENERGY A WARM WELCOME
<br /> Gas Prices Jump by
<br /> Almost 50 Percent
<br /> n Monday, De- - -.. '-�
<br /> cember 15th` �s ��' �.. I,
<br /> Bixby History and -,•44-''',V,-
<br /> Contact Info
<br /> Bixby President
<br /> Bob Walker traveled to the _
<br /> NKEL note on city of Mankato in south ;w a;, ,
<br /> 5:j j ry `
<br /> Biomass ern Minnesota and spoke +.I
<br /> to a group of state and ,eF"
<br /> Crude Oillm orfs local politicians led by Rep II r
<br /> p resentative Gil Gutknecht .
<br /> Decline/Prices Go Up (Rep). Gutknecht has t
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<br /> Happy New Year from taken an active role in Con-'' ,r
<br /> 'ixby Enemy gress in cosponsoring and
<br /> supporting bills and initia - "
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<br /> Comments from Bob
<br /> fives that promote the use r * ,,
<br /> of renewable energyre
<br /> Walker ' sources and technologies,
<br /> such as ethanol and other +
<br /> forms of biomass energy. Bixby.President Bob Walker speaking to Representative Gil Gutknecht
<br /> Among the other atten- (background)and a group of state and local officials in Mankato,Minnesota.
<br /> deer were officials from
<br /> the USDA's Rural Develop- rial generated by ethanol for the production of re
<br /> ment Agency,the Farm plants can be used to newable fuel for the entire
<br /> Service Agency,and the make biomass pellets for nation." Representative
<br /> Faribault County Economic the Bixby system, locating Gutknecht also felt
<br /> Development Authority.
<br /> a pellet production plant strongly about the Bixby
<br /> I t the meeting, Bob there would guarantee a technology: "This really is
<br /> a Walker indicated steady, inexpensive supply the next chapter in produc-
<br /> that there was of raw materials. Southern ing our own energy."
<br /> roughly a fifty-fifty chance Minnesota also has an (Con
<br /> ti�ued on page 3)
<br /> i that Bixbyner S stems
<br /> Y Energy
<br /> Y extensive infrastructure of
<br /> would begin construction railroad lines for moving
<br /> of it's first pellet producing materials and finished a u-
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<br /> plant somewhere in south- goods in and out.
<br /> Eilxby ern Minnesota this coming
<br /> he attendees of the
<br /> � �rR , ,.;,e .,
<br /> Spring. Southern Minne ' �¢ �
<br /> sofa already has a strong ,.. presentation were
<br /> Y g quick to offer their �� :
<br /> Making Biomass Energy presence in the biomass
<br /> support. "I feel real
<br /> a Practical Alternative" '� ��
<br /> industry,with several etha �
<br /> no plants and other pro strongly about getting our
<br /> ducers of renewable en-
<br /> agency involved,"said '� �'
<br /> Steve Wenzel of the USDA. � �
<br /> ergy already located there. "I can see southern Minne-
<br /> Because the waste mate-
<br /> sofa becoming the center ,. ....,k .
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