Friday, August 23, 2024

Geoff Simon's Quick Connects -- August 23, 2024

• BLM proposes to limit ND coal mining, and oil and gas production -- E&E News

• Most federal coal in ND unavailable by 2040 under BLM plan -- Bismarck Tribune

• Two natural gas pipeline projects in the works for ND -- Prairie Public Newsroom

• Feds invest big in small ND towns with $15M for Mott, Amidon -- Bismarck Tribune

• Bakken operators could unlock 3,000 additional ND drilling locations with refracs -- World Oil

• SD Supreme Court reverses orders granting Summit Carbon common carrier status -- Argus Leader

• SD court ruling complicates carbon dioxide pipeline company's push for land -- North Dakota Monitor

• ND poised to become hub for AI data centers. Can the state's power grid handle it? -- Dickinson Press

• North Dakota's commercial service and regional airports see busiest July on record -- Minot Daily News

• Property tax measure would disrupt hundreds of millions in annual revenue -- North Dakota Monitor

• Ethics commission launches an investigation over 'unregistered lobbyist' of film grants -- KX News

• 29 applications received for the open seat on North Dakota Ethics Commission -- North Dakota Monitor

• Sales tax revenue, full costs unclear if North Dakota voters legalize recreational marijuana -- AP

• Corporate income tax down 10%, but state revenues still exceeding projections -- North Dakota Monitor

• Design taking shape for ND Military History Museum to be built on Capitol grounds -- Bismarck Tribune

• Invasive emerald ash borer was detected in LaMoure County; first time in North Dakota -- KFYR - TV

• Housing expansion coming to small North Dakota town as local data centers grow -- Bismarck Tribune

• Recall petition targeting mayor and city commissioners circulating for signatures -- Dickinson Press

• After two years, Stark County's $7.5 million eastern bypass project nears completion -- Dickinson Press

• Property tax vote could be blow to budgets; county, city, schools concerned about impact -- The Journal

• Apex Clean Energy, Bowman Wind award latest round of community grants -- Bowman County Pioneer

• KTGO 1090AM "The Flag" Radio is moving from Tioga to Watford City -- McKenzie County Farmer

• Williston Basin School District staff welcomes over 50 newly hired teachers for training -- KFYR - TV

• Do secretive school choice meetings break North Dakota's open meetings law? -- North Dakota Monitor

• Minot North High School passes the most recent city inspection prior to first day of class -- KX News

• McKenzie County embraces growth, challenges as new school year begins -- McKenzie County Farmer

• Divide County board mulls night meetings; proposed time change only for certain months -- The Journal

• 23 states, multiple coal companies ask Supreme Court to halt Biden rule to restrict pollution -- The Hill

• US appeals court scraps natural gas pipeline safety standards adopted by administration -- Reuters

• US gas prices fall to lowest since March, diesel hits multi-year low; down 3rd week in a row -- Oil Price

• Enbridge CEO predicts oil demand by 2050 to be "well north" of 100M barrels a day -- BNN Bloomberg

• David Blackmon: Kamala Harris' radical energy policy catalog is full of whoppers -- Daily Caller

• Kamala Harris wants Americans to eat less red meat for the "climate" -- Americans for Tax Reform

• Consol Energy, Arch Resources strike deal to create $5B North American coal mining giant -- Reuters

• JD Vance: Kamala Harris wages war on reliable, abundant, low-cost US energy -- Wall Street Journal

• Tim Walz' "net-zero" climate policies could leave the Midwest in the dark -- Wall Street Journal

• Kamala Harris stopped peddling climate doom, but insiders say she's still a hardliner -- Daily Caller

• Oil industry leaders say there are reasons for optimism over Harris' fracking flip-flop -- E&E News

• Wind turbine fire in Mechanicsville, Iowa, could cost farmer millions, debris everywhere -- KCRG-TV

• China's production of coal rose 2.8% while its share of electricity generation is declining -- Reuters

• Government documents show coal will remain the "backbone" of India's energy mix. -- BizPack Review

• Is a demonstration project needed to show a zero-emission grid is impossible? -- Manhattan Contrarian

• Tonga volcano released huge amount of water vapor, will cause unusual weather -- The Conversation

• Part of the Atlantic Ocean is cooling at record speed and nobody understands why -- New Scientist

• Bjorn Lomborg: Polar bears, dead coral and other climate fictions mislead public -- Wall Street Journal

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