North Dakota Regulators Owe the Public a Better Explanation for Spill Underreporting
“I get it – people want more information.” That's what North Dakota Environmental Quality Chief Dave Glatt told the Associated...
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Give Commissioner Fedorchak Credit for Sticking With North Dakota’s Rail Inspection Program
During the 2015 legislative session Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak fought a pitched battle, mostly behind-the-scenes, against cantankerous lawmakers who...
Plain Talk: Industry Spokesman Says Reducing Oil Production Isn’t the Way to Curb Flaring
The issue of natural gas flaring in North Dakota is making regional, and even national, headlines again. Ron Ness from...
Even at Its Peak Violent Crime in the Bakken Oil Patch Was About the Same as the Surrounding Region
Recently my colleague April Baumgarten produced a very thorough report on crime in the region of the Bakken oil fields...
North Dakota, With Some of the Highest Oil Tax Rates in the Nation, Is Hardly a “Cheap Date”
Our left wing friends like to live in a fairy tale land where North Dakota is some noxious petrostate in...
We Should Use a Term Other Than “Spill” for Oil Field Incidents That Don’t Result in an Actual Spill
Environmental activists, many of whom would like to stop the development of oil resources entirely, like to talk a lot...
North Dakota Sales Tax Revenues up Nearly 10 Percent in 2018’s First Quarter, but the Increases Were Mostly in Oil Country
With lawmakers probably looking at more budget belt tightening in their 2019 session which begins in January news of increased...
Unfortunately for North Dakota’s Democrats Oil Tax Revenues Were up 25 Percent in 2017
Ever since the Republican-controlled Legislature passed reforms to North Dakota's oil tax code during their 2015 session, eliminating a tax...
It Turns Out Oil Spills Aren’t the End of the World
Reasonable people understand that oil is a product that's necessary to the quality of life we enjoy today. We all...
Podcast: “We’ve Gone From Surviving to Thriving”
Live on location at the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference yesterday I interviewed a number of people from North Dakota's oil...
