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From a dream to reality. . . 2006
December 2006 |
- Dec. 13 - GLE purchases State Line Cooperative Elevator in Madison, MN
- Dec. 9 - GLE holds Annual Employee Christmas Party
- Dec. 7 - GLE hosts After Business Social in Madison, MN
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November 2006 |
 Nov. 16 - GLE sponsors and participates in Watertown Area Businessman-Farmer Ag Appreciation Banquet- Nov. 15 - Redfield Energy, LLC holds Job Fair at Redfield High School
- Nov. 14 - GLE sponsors and participates in Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce Business/Ag Appreciation Banquet
- Nov. 14 - Redfield Energy and Glacial Lakes Energy sign letter of intent to merger
- Nov. 13 - GLE begins well drilling at Aberdeen Energy site
- Nov. 8 - Construction complete on ground storage pile and start filling with new crop corn
- Nov. 5 - GLE hits a milestone with four years of no lost time accidents
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October 2006 |
 Oct. 31 - Initial dirt work begins at Missouri Valley Energy, LLC- Oct. 26 - Missouri Valley Energy, LLC Groundbreaking held at USD Dakota Dome with featured speakers Governor Mike Rounds, Senator Tim Johnson, and Senator John Thune.
- Oct. 25 - Initial dirt work begins at Aberdeen Energy, LLC
- Oct. '06 - Begin constructing 2.0 million ground corn storage bunker
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September 2006 |
 Sept. 26 - GLE participates in Watertown Regional Career Fair- Sept. 21 - Aberdeen Energy, LLC Groundbreaking held on site with featured speaker Governor Mike Rounds
- Sept. 20 - Watertown, SD is named “Capitol for a Day” by Governor Mike Rounds. GLE sponsors event and is one of three businesses toured by State officials.
- Sept. 15 - GLE closes on purchase of land near Vermillion, SD that Missouri Valley Energy, LLC will be built on
- Sept. 15 - GLE closes land purchase for Missouri Valley Energy
- Sept. 10 - GLE closes on purchase of land for Madison Energy, LLC
- Sept. 7-10 - GLE participates in Lac qui Parle County Fair in Madison, MN
- Sept. 6 - GLE announces the Design/Build Team for Madison Energy, LLC ethanol plant in Madison, MN as Fagen, Inc of Granite Falls, MN and ICM of Colwich, KS.
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August 2006 |
- August 31 - GLE participates in Value Added Day at South Dakota State Fair in Huron
- August 26 - GLE holds Annual Employee Picnic at Thunder Road
- August 25 - GLE closes Equity Drive raising $95 million in three days!
- August 22 - GLE holds Equity Drives in Watertown, Ipswich, and Vermillion with the intent to sell up to $95 million of Glacial Lakes Corn Processors stock to fund the expansion in Watertown, a 100 mgy ethanol plant near Ipswich, SD, and a 60 mgy ethanol plant near Vermillion, SD.
- August 22 - RE holds Feed Seminar at Redfield Sale Barn
- August 22 - GLE closes land purchase for Aberdeen Energy
- August 18 - GLE sponsors race at Madison Speedway in Madison, MN
- August 17 - E85 Day held at Thunder Road in Watertown, SD
- August 4 - GLE partipates in annual Tractor Parade from Watertown to DeSmet to Clark
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July 2006 |
 July 24 - Fagen, Inc and ICM, Inc are named as the Design/Build Team for Aberdeen Energy, LLC- July 21 - Glacial Lakes Corn Processors declared a 9-for-1 stock split
- July 14 - GLE holds First Annual Bankers Day luncheon at the Watertown Event Center
- July 7 - GLE chooses site in Edmunds County to build 100 mgy ethanol plant named Aberdeen Energy, LLC
- July 2 - GLE participates in Madison, MN Fourth of July Celebration
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June 2006 |
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 June 29 - Glacial Lakes Energy, LLC announces the location of its fifth ethanol facility in Madison, MN. Madison Energy will be a 50 mgy ethanol production facility.
- June 29 - Glacial Lakes Energy, LLC in conjunction with Missouri Valley Energy, LLC announce that they have merged their companies together with MVE becoming part of GLE in order to build an ethanol plant near Vermillion, SD.
- June 13 - Granite Falls Energy, LLC Grand Opening celebration with featured speaker Governor Tim Pawlenty
- June 9 - GLE holds public informational meeting at Lac qui Parle High School in Madison, MN regarding the future plans of Madison Energy, LLC ethanol plant
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May 2006 |
 May 25 - GLCP holds member meeting to change by laws in preparation for stock offering(s)- May 11 - CEO Tom Branhan and EPIC President met with US Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman to talk about trends affecting the ethanol industry while on the track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. May 11, 2006, CEO Tom Branhan and EPIC President met with US Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman to talk about trends affecting the ethanol industry while on the track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
- GLE announces to build another ethanol production facility in Madison, MN
- Construction on addition to Administration Building begins
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April 2006 |
- April 14 - GLE holds Yellow Dime Day at Sioux Valley Coop on Hwy 212 in Watertown
- The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) announces that the Glacial Lakes Energy LLC (ethanol plant in Watertown, SD) wastewater treatment system is a recipient of the 2005 Industrial Operation and Maintenance Excellence Award. This award is for outstanding wastewater system operation and environmental compliance with its state surface water discharge permit for the past year.
- GLE receives the “South Dakota Industrial Wastewater Excellence Award” for the second year in a row
- Sioux Valley Coop installs Blender Pumps on Hwy 212. Consumers have the option to purchase fuel E10, E20, E30 or E85 ethanol blended fuel
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February 2006 |
 Governor Rounds signs and enacts
into law House Bill 1226 which is an Act to expand the tax refund for agricultural processing facilities to include
expansions to existing facilities and to revise the time period in
which an application must be submitted.
- Construction complete on new fermenter and
began filling with mash for the first time
- GLE announces plans to
build ethanol plant near Aberdeen, SD
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January 2006 |
- GLCP holds Annual Membership Meeting where plans to double the size of GLE are announced
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