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Article: Power plant idea resurfaces; Crown Hydro leaders turn to 4-pronged approach.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 31, 2004
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Byline: Chao Xiong; Staff Writer
Rejected by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and decried by riverfront residents, the decades-old hydroelectric power project proposed by Crown Hydro seemed dead months ago.
But the privately held company's core leaders clung to their dreams and have outlined four possible routes to realizing their goal of building an underground hydroelectric power plant near St. Anthony Falls on the Mississippi River near downtown Minneapolis.
It's only fitting for a project that seemingly came back from the dead once before. Crown Hydro began in 1975 as an attempt to develop rental units in the Crown Roller Mill ...