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Calumet’s Montana Renewables became the largest SAF producer in North America in Q2

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—Bruce Fleming, CEO Montana Renewables and EVP Corporate Development The planned hydraulic expansion and MaxSAF developments both continue as the company strategically seeks to grow its first-mover position in the rapidly accelerating SAF market. With these milestones met, we have demonstrated Untreated EBITDA of $1.25

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Transcanada restarts Keystone oil sands pipeline operations

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TransCanada Corporation said that its 590,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity Keystone Pipeline system resumed transporting oil sands crude on Sunday, 5 June, after a shutdown 29 May following an above-ground spill at a pump station in Kansas involving less than 10 barrels of oil. Click to enlarge.

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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plans to study the feasibility of recovering critical minerals from coal and associated strata in the Cherokee-Forest City Basin encompassing Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and the Osage Nation. DOE Funding: $1,499,999. DOE Funding: $1,499,817. Other: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.

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USDA establishes four additional Biomass Crop Assistance Program project areas

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Acreage in Arkansas, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania will be designated to grow giant miscanthus, a sterile hybrid warm-season grass that can be converted into energy to be used for heat, power, liquid biofuels, and bio-based products. The sign-up period for the new project areas will begin on Monday, 20 June 2011.

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USDA providing $9.6M to create 9,000 acres of BCAP project areas for non-food energy crop production

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This Arkansas BCAP project area is sponsored by MFA Oil Biomass LLC, in Columbia, Mo. MFA Oil Biomass and partner Aloterra Energy LLC, operating in Ohio, will continue to coordinate the crop propagations, planting and mitigation and monitoring plan. The deadline to sign up for the project areas is 14 Sept.

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Gevo Biobutanol Retrofit Plant Starts Up; Gevo Launches Development Company to Retrofit Ethanol Plants

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Joseph, Missouri, Gevo is demonstrating the viability of its technology for retrofitting existing ethanol plants to make biobutanol. Corporate developments over the past year have included: In October 2008, Gevo and ICM, Inc. In April 2009, oil and gas major Total invested an undisclosed amount in the series D round.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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quadrillion BTU of energy annually, equivalent to 280 million barrels of oil, or a month’s worth of that nation’s oil imports. Missouri U. New technologies to better repurpose these materials could save U.S. manufacturers and the nation up to 1.6 Industry-proposed Institutes Competition. Purdue U.