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This Refinery Wants to Make Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mainstream. Trump’s Cuts Could Kill It
A sprawling Minnesota refinery wants to make low-carbon aviation fuel mainstream—but without government support experts believe the project could be "dead in the water."
Late last year WIRED spoke to Jake Reint, vice president of external affairs for Flint Hills Resources, the company within Koch Industries that owns Pine Bend and several other refineries, petrochemical plants, and pipelines. He said that, so far, forming the SAF demand consortium with Delta, Bank of America, Deloitte, and Ecolab, as well as having the blending facility infrastructure in the works, has helped to attract interest from project developers and additional potential offtakers. “There are a thousand reasons this isn’t going to work,” Frosch says, rattling off a laundry list of challenges the hub is facing: getting enough farmers to grow a new crop or change their farming practices; auditing the carbon intensity of the sustainable fuels; the availability of state and federal incentives; bringing in additional investment and production partners.
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