Friday, January 12, 2024

Geoff Simon's Quick Connects -- January 12, 2024

• Ice storm damage to regional power system will cost $5 million -- Dickinson Press

• BLM announces oil/gas lease sale for 6 parcels in North Dakota -- Bismarck Tribune

• Otter Tail Power to start installing 'smart meters' this year -- North Dakota Monitor

• South Dakota landowners protest proposed CO2 pipeline -- Oklahoma Energy Today

• Americans projected to spend less on gas in 2024 ? what about in North Dakota? -- Bismarck Tribune

• 985 acres of reclaimed coal mining land ready to be returned to agricultural production -- KFYR - TV

• Federal judge orders North Dakota to use Native plaintiffs' proposed legislative map -- Dickinson Press

• Former Senator Dwight Cook, who shaped North Dakota tax policy, dies at age 72 -- Dickinson Press

• Forbes Advisor names North Dakota best state to start a business two years running -- Prairie Public

• ND Governor's run appears imminent for former Senator Tom Campbell -- McKenzie County Farmer

• Representative Kelly Armstrong files with Federal Election Commission to run again in 2024 -- KX News

• Democrat announces long-shot campaign for North Dakota's only US House seat -- Washington Post

• North Dakota GOP announces eight candidates for 2024 Presidential Caucus ballot -- Bismarck Tribune

• Rios removed from interim judiciary committee after berating police during DUI arrest -- Dickinson Press

• Mountrail County state's attorney to review investigation on AG building, emails -- North Dakota Monitor

• North Dakota lawmaker Jason Dockter hit with misdemeanor charge in speculation case -- Fox News

• Sen. Jordan Kannianen will not seek third term when his term expires this year -- KFYR - TV

• 2024 is set to be big for Magic City, with new buildings, restaurants, and events set to hit -- KX News

• Leadership reinstatements among Stark Co. Commission 2024 key agenda items -- Dickinson Press

• Western, Central North Dakota residents brace for arctic chill as temperatures plummet -- InForum

• Garrison Ambulance Board requests $10,000 from Sales and Use -- McLean County Independent

• Scott Faul accepts offer to be next Minot Public Schools superintendent beginning July -- KFYR - TV

• Declining enrollment, looming deficits prompt school board to seek cost savings -- Minot Daily News

• Williston Basin School Board leaves meeting after group calls for immediate resignations -- KFYR-TV

• Williston Basin School District board to meet virtually 'for the safety of all involved' -- Williston Herald

• North Dakota DPI Superintendent Kirsten Baesler announces re-election run -- Dickinson Press

• Long-awaited Williston childcare facilities doing well, taking many in months after opening -- KFYR-TV

• North Dakota University System looking at shorter timeline for college degrees -- North Dakota Monitor

• Bottineau academy addresses daycare shortage by offering relocation assistance -- Minot Daily News

• City of Williston, school district eyeing Williston Square as possible site for elementary -- KFYR - TV

• Minot Air Force Base's three public schools were presented with the Purple Star Award -- KX News

• U.S. crude production will hit records over the next two years but grow at a slower rate - EIA -- Reuters

• Global oil demand expected to increase by almost 2M barrels a day in 2024, says WoodMac -- Reuters

• Oil and gas operators testify before House subcommittee against EPA's new methane fee -- E&E News

• Old Man Winter finally wakes up as regional natural gas forward prices surge -- Natural Gas Intelligence

• US grid operator PJM asks Talen Energy to postpone fossil fuel plant retirements by 3 years -- Reuters

• New $7.4B Chesapeake Southwestern merger will create biggest US natural gas producer -- Oil Price

• House Oversight Chair probes Kerry over green group discussions on anti-coal alliance -- The Hill

• India's fuel consumption rose in December to seven month 20.054 million metric ton high -- Reuters

• Shale giant Harold Hamm looks to university courses to attract young talent to oil industry -- Oil Price

• Despite changes to public land drilling, Utah closes 2023 with record production -- Utah News Dispatch

• GE business to fill order for turbines to power Western Hemisphere's largest wind project -- AP News

• San Francisco e-scooters are bursting into flames. lawmakers want action -- San Francisco Standard

• Hertz to sell 20,000 electric vehicles in a shift back to gasoline-powered cars -- Yahoo Finance

• The hottest 12 months in the past 125,000 years claim lacks any scientific evidence -- Daily Sceptic

• State court delivers setback to Delaware in climate change lawsuit against Big Oil -- Fox News

• The catastrophic cost of the climate cabal; trillions of dollars will be wasted -- Issues and Insights

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