Saturday, December 9, 2023

Geoff Simon's Quick Connects -- December 15, 2023

• ND Supreme Court to hear pipeline survey access case -- North Dakota Monitor

• Researchers find cost-effective way to extract rare-earth elements from coal -- MPR

• Alaska legislators travel to ND to learn about carbon capture efforts -- Alaska Beacon

• Many Heartland Hydrogen Hub details will take years to finalize -- Bismarck Tribune

• North Dakota energy sector sees slowed growth in Q3 sales -- McKenzie County Farmer

• North Dakota regulators worry new methane rule could cost jobs, thousands of barrels of oil -- InForum

• Bakken, Permian take spotlight in quarterly federal oil, natural gas auctions -- Natural Gas Intelligence

• Public Service Commission approves MDU request for interim natural gas rate hike -- Bismarck Tribune

• New Mexico, the No. 2 oil-producing US state, braces for possible end to income bonanza -- KX News

• ND PSC inviting comments regarding certificate of corridor and route permit transfer -- The Beacon

• General fund revenue 10.4% higher than state forecasted during budgeting -- North Dakota Monitor

• 3rd quarter taxable sales in ND up from 2022; economic activity might be slowing -- Bismarck Tribune

• ND League of Women Voters works to spur more candidates for 2024 election -- North Dakota Monitor

• North Dakota GOP taps next executive director; third person to hold role this year -- Bismarck Tribune

• CPKC Holiday Train returns to North Dakota this weekend, making six stops through state -- KFYR - TV

• State agencies collect over 13,000 food items in third year of Auditor's Office challenge -- KX News

• State Senator Dale Patten seeking re-election in McKenzie, Dunn County's District 26 -- KX News

• Slain Mercer County deputy remembered as dedicated lawman, family man, friend -- Bismarck Tribune

• FEMA approves $15.8M in public assistance for Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative -- KX News

• Divide County to hear public comments about potential changes to solar ordinance -- The Journal

• Crosby City Council looks to fill open mayor's seat after Vassen cites plans to move -- The Journal

• Stark County Sheriff's Office adopts safer restraints, abandons dated method -- Dickinson Press

• Williston Police Department officers to receive $1,400 bonus thanks to state grant -- KFYR-TV

• Construction on Williston's US 2, 2nd Ave W intersection starting in 2025 say officials -- KFYR - TV

• Minot Air Force Base a major winner defense bill passed by Congress this week -- Minot Daily News

• Wabek School comes back to life after Andes undertakes its restoration -- McLean County Independent

• Dreams of white Christmas in western ND unlikely to come true this year -- Bowman County Pioneer

• Unqualified teachers are in the classroom due to North Dakota's teacher shortage -- KX News

• Williston school board votes to keep 'not age-appropriate' library books on the shelves -- KFYR - TV

• Lincoln Elementary in Beach transforms learning landscape with $8,208 DPI grant -- Dickinson Press

• Deliberations over next Minot Public Schools superintendent to spill into next week -- KFYR - TV

• NDSU leaders request 'refresh' of funding formula for higher education institutions -- Dickinson Press

• North Dakota seeks CDL shortcuts to remedy bus driver shortage -- North Dakota Monitor

• ND Assistant Principal of the Year winner from Lewis and Clark North Shore Plaza -- Minot Daily News

• Five WCHS art students recognized at Badlands Art Association Art Show -- McKenzie County Farmer

• Wyoming innovates to combat climate change as part of "all-of-the-above" energy policy -- CBS News

• New pipelines to bring significant volumes of natgas to export terminals under construction -- US EIA

• Grid monitor warns of blackouts as coal plants retire; debate over slowing retirements -- E&E News

• FTC opens inquiry of Chevron-Hess merger, marking 2nd review this week of major oil deal -- KX News

• Unprecedented COP28 agreement unlikely to prompt upheaval in US energy landscape -- The Hill

• Oil-rich Saudi Arabia urging nations to take action on growing climate threat of wind, solar -- E&E News

• India, 3rd largest crude importer, to boost refining capacity by 1M bpd each year until 2028 -- Oil Price

• World oil demand to rise faster than expected to 1.1 million barrels per day in 2024 says IEA -- Reuters

• What do China and India know about coal that Biden and Democrats don't? -- Real Clear Energy

• Lesson for fossil fuel advocates' from COP28: Stop "Arguing to 0," start "Arguing to 100" -- Alex Epstein

• USA Today claims weather getting weirder, more extreme; Data shows it's not -- Climate Realism

• Climate change advocacy: Is it incompetence or intentional fraud? -- Manhattan Contrarian


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