Quick Connects -- Geoff Simon's Top North Dakota Energy Stories -- January 21, 2022

• Illinois DAPL ruling creates uncertainty for expansion plans -- KFYR TV

• Bakken's abandoned well plugging program set to go national -- Williston Herald

•Wind farm planned for McLean County would be ND's largest -- Bismarck Tribune

• North Dakota to appeal ruling in royalty dispute with oil company -- Dickinson Press

• Natural gas customers may be paying more for home heating this winter -- KFYR TV

• North Dakota District 33 candidates emerge; Bell, Tveit, Delzer to run again -- Bismarck Tribune

• Bismarck rep who led conservative faction will not seek re-election -- Dickinson Press

• North Dakota Supreme Court justice Daniel Crothers seeks final term -- Bismarck Tribune

• Mark your calendar for these political dates in North Dakota -- Bismarck Tribune

• Minot City Council approves intermodal agreement with Minot Area Chamber EDC -- Minot Daily News

• Stark County afoul of ND sunshine laws, North Dakota AG office opinion finds -- Dickinson Press

• Theodore Roosevelt statue destined for ND, removed from New York museum -- NY Post

• North Dakota Native American Hall of Honor seeks nominees -- Bismarck Tribune

• City of Minot plans shift of resilience dollars to city hall, family homeless shelter -- Minot Daily News

• Minot School District prepares plans for a second public high school -- Spaces4Learning

• Watford schools will have slow, steady growth for the next 10 years -- McKenzie County Farmer

• Biden's "net zero" executive order threatens the very existence of our nation -- Alex Epstein

• Texas pipeline company walks back threat to cut off natural gas to power plants -- Texas Tribune

• U.S. natural gas is saving Europe from its own misguided energy policies -- Newsweek

• Robert Bryce: As coal use surges, America finds it's hard to unplug from carbon fuels -- The Hill

• Biden's huge mistake: Keystone XL cancellation marks massive missed opportunity -- Energy Now

• West Virginia dumps BlackRock fund over anti fossil-energy stance -- Fox Business News

• The impossibility of electrifying everything using wind, solar and batteries -- Manhattan Contrarian

• China coal production his a record 4.07 billion tons in 2021, 4.7 percent increase -- The Guardian

• The ESG movement is anti-energy, anti-development, and anti-America -- Alex Epstein