Geoff Simon's Quick Connects -- March 25, 2022

Quick connects:

• ND looking at unique methods to improve flare mitigation rates -- KFYR-TV

• ND Petroleum Council's Ron Ness discusses recent letter to Biden -- KX News

• North Dakota Supreme Court hears state's pore space appeal -- Bismarck Tribune

• Ness explains what it will take to get back to full-throttle Bakken -- Williston Herald

• Forum highlights permitting challenges facing North Dakota -- Congressman Kelly Armstrong

• Petitions for North Dakota term limits measure allegedly violate state laws -- Bismarck Tribune

• ND Democrats struggle to regain relevance, few candidates emerge -- Bismarck Tribune

• North Dakota Dems back candidates for Ag Commissioner and PSC seat -- Bismarck Tribune

• Criminal investigation commences as term limits group rips disqualification -- Fargo Forum

• Velva resident Trygve Hammer announces Dem-NPL PSC candidacy -- Bismarck Tribune

• Port: Coal country may become ground zero for the NDGOP's civil war -- Dickinson Press

• North Dakota ethics panel to split proposed conflict of interest rules -- Bismarck Tribune

• Busy job fair brings out diversity of employment opportunities in Bakken -- Williston Herald

• Hundreds of jobs available at Northwest ND Semi-Annual Job Fair -- KFYR TV

• Western North Dakota honor flight to launch inaugural trip -- Minot Daily News

• One-cent sales tax for St. Luke's Hospital will be on June 14 ballot -- Crosby Journal

• County imposes burn ban; fire precautions taken as of March 15 -- McKenzie County Farmer

• ND Student Association pushing for "Indigenous People's Day" -- Prairie Public

• North Dakota waiting on federal money for tech ed centers -- Grand Forks Herald

• Cultivating and inspiring innovation in our schools, "doing things differently" -- DPI

• Tioga High School makes plans for summer of construction work -- Tioga Tribune

• Stanley FFA students celebrate Ag Week by driving farm equipment to school -- KX News

• Bismarck history teacher wins prestigious Milken Educator Award -- Bismarck Tribune

• Oil jumps 5% as Caspian pipeline disruption adds to supply fears -- Reuters

• Will Russia-Ukraine war prompt Biden to reset oil and gas policy -- Natural Gas Intelligence

• These pipeline maps show how natural gas is behind Russia's power -- CNN Business

• White House calls for more LNG exports, while also saying "don't invest in gas" -- Energy in Depth

• Joe Biden is in climate denial; Ukraine was has reset energy politics -- Kim Strassel, WSJ

• Here's who NOT to blame for high gasoline prices, Biden is not on the list -- Inside Sources

• The real reasons U.S. oil producers are exercising caution, mostly Big Government -- OilPrice.com

• The SEC's climate change overreach; it's Congress' job to set policy, not SEC -- Wall Street Journal

• SEC rule lets climate activists get their claws on business without a vote of Congress -- AFN Net

• Climate change is about government control of your life, not the environment -- Watts Up With That

• China reignites mothballed coal plants in wake of power shortages -- Nikkei Asia