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Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company provides natural gas transportation and underground storage to customers throughout the Upper Midwest. As a subsidiary of MDU Resources Group, the company provides services to utilities, natural gas production companies, energy marketing firms and large industrial consumers. It owns and operates more than 3,700 miles of transmission, gathering and storage lines and maintains nearly 30 compressor stations. Williston Basin's system is strategically located near five natural gas producing basins, making natural gas supplies available to the company s transportation and storage customers. Its system also has 11 interconnecting points with other pipeline facilities that allows for the receipt and delivery of natural gas to and from other regions of the United States and from Canada. Williston Basin, which is regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, maintains a headquarters location in Bismarck, N.D.

BNI Coal is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ALLETE (NYSE-ALE) and owns and operates the Center Mine near Center, N.D. BNI Coal's surface mine supplies lignite coal to fuel the nearby Milton R. Young steam electric Generating Station, Units I and II. BNI mines about 4.5 million tons of lignite coal annually, supplying both units of the Young Station. The mining process disturbs and reclaims approximately 210 acres per year. With reserves of 600 million tons, BNI has ample capacity to expand production. In 1930, Harris M. Baukol, his brothers and L.L. Monson formed Baukol-Noonan Lignite, Inc. and Noonan Holding Company. The companies began mining near Noonan, N.D. In 1949, the businesses were assumed by a successor company, Baukol-Noonan, Inc. Operations at the Center mine began in 1970. In 1988, Baukol-Noonan was purchased by Minnesota Power Company currently known as (ALLETE). Baukol-Noonan changed its name to BNI Coal Ltd. and relocated its headquarters to Bismarck, N.D.