How Bad Will Falling Oil Prices Hurt North Dakota?
North Dakota has seen a boom in industry, commerce, and population thanks to Bakken shale oil development, but that boom...
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Can You Imagine How Bad Things In America Would Be Without Fracking?
Oil industry innovations like hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have opened up entire universes of new energy reserves in the...
Have Canadians Found A Way Around America's Interminable Keystone Delays?
A new pipeline proposed in Canada would take Alberta oil to an eastern seaport where it could be loaded on...
Minnesota Sandbags Sandpiper Pipeline, Must Be Pro Train Derailment
According to an Associated Press report this evening, Canadian-based Enbridge has decided to delay a pipeline project of vital importance...
Legislators: Let's Increase Western Share Of Oil Revenues To 60 Percent
Western Republican Legislators and Candidates last week released a very detailed and comprehensive $800M “surge” plan to address oil producing...
On Television: Oil Tax Revenues Belong To All Of North Dakota
We discussed oil tax revenues and funding for oil patch needs on Chris Berg's show on Valley News Live last...
North Dakota Oil Counties Pay Property Tax Rate 30% Lower Than Non-Oil Counties
Earlier today I vented a bit about local leaders in western North Dakota who, even after legislators announced some $800...
This Is Why We Need More Scrutiny On Western North Dakota Spending
I often get asked why I'm so skeptical of demands for ever-increasing oil patch spending. I'll tell you that it's...
The Most Amazing Graph Of North Dakota Incomes You'll See All Day
A colleague at Watchdog.org shared the graph below with me, which was created from Bureau of Economic Analysis data by...
North Dakota Sees Lowest Flaring Rate In More Than Two Years
Back in July I wrote that big reductions in the rate of flaring in North Dakota were on the way....
