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Keeping Clean and Green

Efficiency and conservation

Dakota Gas follows the standard practice of its parent company, Basin Electric, concerning environmental stewardship and regulatory compliance: "Always have; always will."

Deer wintering in the Dakota Gas Centennial Woods near the Great Plains Synfuels Plant. Transmission lines from the nearby Antelope Valley Station are in the distance.

Conservation begins at the Great Plains Synfuels Plant site near Beulah, ND, where land surrounding the plant is carefully returned to its original state with tree and grass plantings, weed control and top soil replacement. The flue gas desulfurization efforts of the 1990s have given Dakota Gas many valuable products to market while bringing plant emissions to the lowest and cleanest levels in North Dakota.

Efficiency is another standard practice for plant operations and product manufacture and marketing. Dakota Gas reinforced its commitment to safety and the environment by adopting the American Chemistry's Council Responsible Care Policy in 2007.

Dakota Gas completed the auditing process to become a certified Responsible Care Company in 2008. To qualify, a company must have reduced environmental releases and achieve an employee safety record more than five times safer than the average U.S. manufacturing sector.

Together with Basin Electric and its other subsidiaries, Dakota Gas is part of a multi-million investment in pollution control equipment and combined annual operation and maintenance expenditures of $82.7 million.

Running all of our plants efficiently not only creates more gas, ammonia and electricity, it also means that less energy is used to make energy.

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Did you know?

In 2008, Basin Electric and its North Dakota facilities recycled enough materials to save more than 850 trees from destruction. The company is on track to save even more trees in 2009.

Sharing resources

Basin Electric’s Antelope Valley Station, a lignite-based electric generating station, is located adjacent to the Synfuels Plant. The two plants share resources such as fuel supply, site access, along with water intake, delivery and storage facilities. Water for the facilities comes from Lake Sakakawea nine miles north of the energy site.