The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) during a Sept. 12 meeting approved with a 3-2 vote a pipeline route permit allowing Magellan to install a pipeline to the west and north of Pipestone. The pipeline will replace a line under the Northern Tallgrass Prairie National Wildlife Refuge – Pipestone Creek Unit and the Pipestone National Monument that was decommissioned in 2022. The PUC approved Route Alternative 1, which was one of four routes under consideration. The route was suggested by the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and would put the pipeline about three miles west and north of Pipestone National...

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