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SD county sells land to Canadian pipeline company
Source: Jamestown sun, by AP
A remote 160-acre plot of rolling rangeland in northwest South Dakota has been purchased by a company that plans an oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. September 19, 2011 The Rapid City Journal reports that Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. purchased the land for $48,000 in Butte County last week at an auction. The land had been taken over by the county in 1993. It's along the route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The county decided to offer the land for sale to the pipeline company rather than negotiating an easement.
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