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The Minnesota Pipe Line (or MPL) is a
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pipeline A pipeline is a system of Pipe (fluid conveyance), pipes for long-distance transportation of a liquid or gas, typically to a market area for consumption. The latest data from 2014 gives a total of slightly less than of pipeline in 120 countries ...
that runs from Clearbrook, Minnesota southward to the
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. Construction began in 2007 after the State of Minnesota approved the building permit, and ended in 2008; it is owned by Minnesota Pipe Line Company, LLC (MPL) and is operated by Koch Pipeline Company, a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of
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. The original proposed route ran through an organic farm; the owners of the farm negotiated with MPL, as a result of which MPL agreed to route the pipeline around the farm and more generally "to implement what they believe was the first organic agriculture mitigation plan in the country applicable to pipeline infrastructure. This agreement was made part of the record of the MinnCan pipeline routing proceeding."Macabee, Paula Goodman
Appendix to Agricultural Impact Mitigation Plan For Organic Agricultural Land.” Pipelines, Power Lines, and Organic Farms
Drake Journal of Agricultural Law 14: 19-42. 2009.
The pipeline is largely fed by the
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that carries crude from
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,
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. It splits into two parts at a junction in
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. One branch serves the
Pine Bend Refinery The Pine Bend Refinery is the largest oil refinery in Minnesota, located in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Twin Cities suburbs of Rosemount, Minnesota, Rosemount and Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, Inver Grove Heights next to southern split of U.S. Rou ...
owned by Flint Hills Resources (another Koch subsidiary) in
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. The other portion of the line runs to Northern Tier Energy's St. Paul Park Refinery in St. Paul Park, Minnesota. There is a connection at the Pine Bend Refinery to the Wood River Pipeline, which currently carries crude oil from the
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area to Minnesota. In 2008 Minnesota Pipe Line completed a parallel line to expand the pipeline capacity from Clearbrook to the Twin Cities by with ultimate potential expansion to .


Minnesota Pipe Line system


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