{"id":61583,"date":"2014-12-23T07:43:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=61583"},"modified":"2014-12-23T07:43:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:43:18","slug":"sepa-rail-loop-discussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=61583","title":{"rendered":"SEPA rail loop discussed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Spiritwood-rail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-57823\" alt=\"Spiritwood rail\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Spiritwood-rail-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Spiritwood-rail-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Spiritwood-rail-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Spiritwood-rail.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi) The Spiritwood Energy Park Association (SEPA) has until March 31, 2015 to raise $1 million to connect its rail loop to the BNSF main line.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the rail loop is a circular track around the SEPA industrial park but does not connect to any other rail lines.<\/p>\n<p>SEPA is a partnership between the Jamestown\/Stutsman Development Corp. and Great River Energy.<\/p>\n<p>JSDC CEO Connie Ova will explore opportunities for raising the funds.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, JSDC owns 70 percent of SEPA. If it makes an additional investment of $1 million, its share of ownership would increase to 75 percent<\/p>\n<p>The additional $1 million will raise the final cost of the loop to $11 million.<\/p>\n<p>The SEPA industrial park is home to Dakota Spirit AgEnergy and includes about 400 acres of additional property for future industrial development.<\/p>\n<p>SEPA built the rail loop last summer to provide rail access to Dakota Spirit AgEnergy and the SEPA industrial park.<\/p>\n<p>The Dakota Spirit AgEnergy plant which is in the final stages of construction.<\/p>\n<p>Plant operations are expected to begin in April. The plant will utilize rail cars to bring in corn and ship ethanol.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) The Spiritwood Energy Park Association (SEPA) has until March 31, 2015 to raise $1 million to connect its rail loop to the BNSF main line. Currently the rail loop is a circular track around the SEPA industrial park but does not connect to any other rail lines. SEPA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61584,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61583\/revisions\/61584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}