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BriG~~.!' T N <br />wk rMKR.~n 'CA.~ v y,i~.t <br />November 2, 2009 <br />y <br />~@~ . TG~IE ,a[ <br />Participating utilities announce wind-down of dig Stone 11 project <br />The participating utilities announced today that they will not build the Big Stone II Project, a planned <br />500-to-600-megawatt coal-fired power plant to be located near Milbank, South Dakota, and its <br />associated transmission. The project required additional participants to move forward; however none <br />have committed. <br />Big Stone II, a fully permitted project, had been determined to be the least-cost, environmentally sound <br />baseload power plant for the project participants. The project's high voltage transmission facilities were <br />to be sized to also serve the region's burgeoning wind energy development. <br />The Big Stone II Project participants were Central Minnesota Municipal Power Agency, Heartland <br />Consumers Power District, Missouri River Energy Services and Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. <br />For information specific to each company, contact: <br />Mark Hanson, Montana-Dakota Utilities Co., 701-530-1093 or mark.hansan@mduresources.com. <br />Bill Radio, Missouri River Energy Services, 605-731-2522 or billr@mrenergy.com. <br />Russ Olson, Heartland Consumers Power District, 605-256-6536 or rolson@hcpd.com. <br />Lori Frisk-Thompson, Central Minnesota Municipal Power Agency, 507-526-2193 or lorift@cmmpa.orR. <br />########## <br />