Air Pollution in North Dakota, an Oil and Coal State, Is Down 25 Percent Over the Last Five Years
To hear some environmental activists put it, you'd think North Dakota were an industrial wasteland where energy industry titans are...
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Let’s All Be Thankful Democrats Didn’t Get Their Way on North Dakota’s Oil Tax
Ever since Republicans reformed North Dakota's oil tax - setting the combined extraction and production taxes at a flat 10...
North Dakota Oil Production up 20 Percent Over Biennium Forecast, Tax Collections up 10 Percent
In his state of the state address this week Governor Doug Burgum warned that North Dakota isn't out of the...
North Dakota’s Flaring Problem Has Its Roots in Excessive Regulation
The environmental activism aimed at impeding, and sometimes even blocking, the build-out of energy infrastructure such as pipelines and refineries/processing...
North Dakota’s Revenue Situation Is Looking Up
The Office of Management and Budget has just released their most recent budget update representing the final numbers from the...
Why Is the North Dakota Land Board Trying to Cost Taxpayers Billions of Dollars?
For some reason Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem's office is, on behalf of the North Dakota Board of University and School...
Double Taxing the Oil Industry Is a Good Way for the Three Affiliated Tribes to Lose a Lot of Money
UPDATE: A reader points out that the Three Affiliated Tribes owns their own oil development company called Missouri River Resources. That seems...
The Dakota Access Pipeline Has Reduced Oil by Rail Shipments by 20 Percent in First Month of Operation
The opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline, many of them political extremists with a propensity for vandalism and violence, told...
It’s Time to Raise the Gas Tax
It's not often you'll hear me argue in favor of raising taxes, but today's editorial in the Grand Forks Herald makes...
Maybe Oil Development Isn’t the Apocalypse Some Make It Out to Be
North Dakotans love their lakes. During the summer months, if you ask a Nodaker what their weekend plans are, more...
