Land Board Is Being Unreasonable, and Not at All Transparent, on Royalty Payments
Crews work at an oil well site near Williston, N.D., on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2016. Amy Dalrymple/Forum News Service
Worse, in the lead-up to these letters, the state’s Board of University and School Lands (which counts Gov. Doug Burgum and Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, among other statewide elected officials, among its membership) met repeatedly behind closed doors — almost a half-dozen times in the last three months according to the Bismarck Tribune — to discuss the issue.
There was no public vote on the matter. There was no allowance for public scrutiny or comment.
That’s not right.
