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Fair Market Value Of The Asset Retirement Obligation Assumed From A Third-Party

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Fair Value Of Equity Securities Without Readily Determinable Fair Value, Gained As A Result Of Terminated Contract

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Fair Value Of Property, Plant And Equipment Gained As A Result Of Terminated Contract

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Gain On The Assumption Of Third-Party Asset Retirement Obligation

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Number Of Contingent Earn-out Arrangements

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Proceeds And Associated Gain From Post-Closing Purchase Price Adjustment, Resulting From The Sale Of Equity Method Investment

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Proceeds As A Result Of Assuming Third-Party Asset Retirement Obligation

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Receivable Payments For Contingent Earn-out Or Amounts Held In Escrow

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Total Gain (Loss) On Contract Termination

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Amount of investment in equity security without readily determinable fair value.

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Gain (loss) related to the termination of a contract between the parties. The termination may be due to many causes including early termination of a lease by a lessee, a breach of contract by one party, or a failure to perform.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The parent entity's interest in net assets of the subsidiary, expressed as a percentage.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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The cash inflow associated with the sale of equity method investments, which are investments in joint ventures and entities in which the entity has an equity ownership interest normally of 20 to 50 percent and exercises significant influence.

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Nature of Operations and Basis of Presentation (Narrative) (Details) $ in Thousands		3 Months Ended				6 Months Ended
	May 02, 2022 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2023 USD ($) segment	Mar. 31, 2023 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2022 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2022 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2023 USD ($) segment	Jun. 30, 2022 USD ($)
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Number of operating segments \| segment						3
Gain on contract termination		$ 0			$ 14,000	$ 0	$ 14,000
Proceeds from the sale of private company equity units						$ 1,153	$ 0
Cash received			$ 2,200
Estimated asset retirement obligation			1,900
Gain on the assumption of third-party asset retirement obligation			$ 300
Caddo Creek
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Membership interest			100.00%
HLCP Ethanol Holdco, LLC
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Proceeds from the sale of private company equity units				$ 18,600
Proceeds and associated gain from the post-closing purchase price adjustment, as a result of the sale of equity method investment			$ 1,200
Number of contingent earn-out arrangements \| segment		2				2
Earn-out, project term						4 years
HLCP Ethanol Holdco, LLC \| Minimum
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Earn-out payments		$ 0				$ 0
HLCP Ethanol Holdco, LLC \| Maximum
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Earn-out payments		$ 12,900				$ 12,900
Coal Mining \| Falkirk
Long-term Purchase Commitment [Line Items]
Total gain on contract termination					$ 30,900
Gain on contract termination	$ 14,000
Fair value gained from contract termination	4,100
Fair value of privately-held company	12,800
Investment	$ 5,000