Geoff Simon's Quick Connects -- August 12, 2022

• North Dakota intervening in oil and gas leasing lawsuit -- Bismarck Tribune

• Why some say North Dakota should get into geothermal energy -- KX News

• In a complete reversal, gas prices drop for 50 straight days -- Minot Daily News

• Bette Grande: The high costs of a green economy -- Fargo Forum

• Emmons County throws voluntary easement mandate, $135M fee at Summit pipeline -- Agweek

• Why the Midwest worries about future blackouts, MISO 1200MW short -- EnergyWire

• ND senators statements on state's intervention in oil and gas lease sales lawsuit -- The Dakotan

• Eighth Circuit affirms producer's royalty calculations under North Dakota law -- JD Supra

• Two ND companies awarded Innovation Technology Loan Fund grants -- Grand Forks Herald

• BNI Coal commissions $31 million dragline; replacing 45-year-old machine -- Bismarck Tribune

• Landowner group seeks $275K after portions of pore space law found unconstitutional -- US News

• North Dakota awarded $1.44 million for more electric vehicle charging stations -- KX News

• Zephyr Energy says Williston Basin assets generated $10.1 million income in 2Q -- Market Watch

• Summit Carbon Solutions works toward easements, acquisitions for pipeline -- York News-Times

• Longtime former state Senator Harvey Tallackson dies at 97 -- Bismarck Tribune

• Former Miss America Cara Mund announces independent bid for U.S. House -- Fargo Forum

• Cara Mund shares political views as independent House campaign kicks off -- Fargo Forum

• Construction continues on long-awaited Northwest Area water project -- Minot Daily News

• Regent native Eric Binstock selected as new State Command Sergeant Major -- Dickinson Press

• ND businesses aim to attract immigrants, foreign workers to counter shortages -- Dickinson Press

• Horse-betting businesswoman had legal hold on Stenehjem's emails before deletion -- Fargo Forum

• State offers stipends, incentives to increase and retain child care workers in North Dakota -- KX News

• Amid nationwide increase, North Dakota has one of the lowest foreclosure rates -- KX News

• Voters in Dunn County to consider levy increase in special ballot measure -- Dickinson Press

• MHA Nation Family Entertainment Center project to begin this week -- Minot Daily News

• More North Dakota parents choosing to homeschool this year than ever before -- KFYR-TV

• McKenzie County approves funding for second Wolf Pup Daycare facility in 2024 -- KFYR-TV

• City of Minot to host planning public workshops to update its comprehensive plan -- Minot Daily News

• Area lawmaker seeks clarification from Legislative Council on district boundaries -- Dickinson Press

• Williams County approves 7 Planning and Zoning Division ordinance updates -- Williston Herald

• Will shorter hours, reduced services become the new normal due to hiring struggle -- Crosby Journal

• Williston Basin School District approves preliminary $70 million revenue budget -- KFYR-TV

• State educators get hands-on National Guard experience at Camp Grafton -- Grand Forks Herald

• Minot school board refuses to accept teacher's past due resignation request -- Minot Daily News

• University of Mary battling the nursing shortage in the classroom -- KFYR-TV

• NDSU Admissions unveils online tool to help incoming students select major -- Williston Herald

• Fargo School Board votes 7-2 to no longer recite the Pledge of Allegiance -- Valley News Live

• Williston Basin School District rolls out red carpet to welcome this year's new teachers -- KFYR-TV

• School safety plans are top of mind and always under review -- Tioga Tribune

• Senate Democrats jam through Green New Deal Spendathon -- Power the Future

• Inflation Reduction Act transfers $250B from pharma to climate-industrial complex -- Wall Street Journal

• US rig count falls down 3 during week of falling oil prices -- Houston Chronicle

• Natural gas activity rises as oil rig count falls; overall domestic activity falls -- Natural Gas Intelligence

• Gasoline at or under $2.99 a gallon as crude prices continue to decline: Here's where -- The Street

• Officials investigate oil contamination in northern Wisconsin -- Bismarck Tribune

• Xcel calls for renewable energy proposals for solar projects with energy storage -- Minot Daily News

• Ruling rejects resource management plans in coal-producing Powder River Basin -- Bismarck Tribune

• Inflation Reduction Act: Senate passes Democrats' sweeping health care and climate bill -- CNN

• Billion barrel oil reserve discovery confirmed in central Wyoming -- Cowboy State Daily

• Preliminary data shows jump in employment in US oilfield services, equipment sector -- Rigzone

• Schumer-Manchin will have puny effect on temperature, 0.028?F by 2100 -- Wall Street Journal

• Inconvenient Truth: Our leaders don't want us to have cheap energy -- Climate Change Dispatch

• As energy crisis engulfs Europe, many nations are turning to coal -- Climate Change Dispatch

• Hydrogen provisions included in the cynically-titled "Inflation Reduction Act" -- Forbes

• Big Wind/Solar roll taxpayers and the landscape; a terror unleashed -- Master Resource

• That $7,500 tax credit for buying an electric car? You probably won't get it. -- KX News

Geoff Simon's Quick Connects -- August 5, 2022

• Sen. Curt Kreun: Let's foster sustainable growth of ND energy -- Bismarck Tribune

• Battles being waged on multiple fronts against ESG metrics -- Williston Herald

• PSC chair: Investments in electric transmission will benefit ND -- Prairie Public

• Plain Talk: ESG investing could downgrade ND credit rating -- Fargo Forum

• ND developers defend blue hydrogen as competitiveness questioned -- S&P Global

• Midwest region's gas fall 7 consecutive weeks; prices plummet 19 cents -- Star Press

• Inflation Reduction Act includes higher CO2 sequestration credits -- Williston Herald

• Red Trail Energy celebrates month of carbon capture, storage in Richardton -- Dickinson Press

• $18.5M grant to boost high-speed internet access in western North Dakota -- Bismarck Tribune

• AG Drew Wrigley: More state guidance on public records would be welcomed -- Grand Forks Herald

• Senate passes bill supporting ND water priorities, will move to US House -- Minot Daily News

• Major ruling leaves questions for tribal-land prosecutions in North Dakota -- Bismarck Tribune

• Lottery contributes $6.7 million to ND state government in fiscal year 2022 -- Williston Herald

• North Dakota Air National Guard taps Levi Heller as new command chief -- Fargo Forum

• Dickinson Parks and Rec visionary retires after 4 decades of successes -- Dickinson Press

• City of Dickinson addresses use of "non-harmful chemicals" on mosquitoes -- Dickinson Press

• State announces new round of pandemic food aid for 12,000 eligible children -- Bismarck Tribune

• Nine businesses receive $485,000 from Williston STAR Fund -- Williston Herald

• US DOT awards $500K grant to City of Williston, supports direct flight to Phoenix -- KFYR-TV

• Where have workers gone - 4.5K employees 'missing' in Divide, Williams, McKenzie -- The Journal

• Dickinson to consider city employee wage increases amid unrelenting inflation -- Dickinson Press

• Ward County approves preliminary budget; taxes up about $1 million -- Minot Daily News

• McKenzie County coalition hosts mental health first aid training -- McKenzie County Farmer

• Economic woes prompt Stark County to review wage options for employees -- Dickinson Press

• $182 million preliminary budget for 2023 unveiled at Minot City Council meeting -- Minot Daily News

• DSU announces interim vice president, provost; recipient of first endowment -- Dickinson Press

• School supply sums surge impacting budgets of ND parents and teachers -- KFYR-TV

• District's new grading scale will raise expectations of students this year -- Tioga Tribune

• Manufacturing North Dakota's workforce with hands-on polytechnic education -- Grand Forks Herald

• North Dakota Petroleum Foundation announced its 2022 Al Golden Scholars -- KX News

• BSC receives $1.9 million from Coal Communities Commitment program -- Bismarck Tribune

• Balfour School bell returned to McHenry County after more than 50 years -- Minot Daily News

• Manchin's support may hand EPA power to throttle coal industry -- Daily Signal

• Biden's climate plans are unsustainable; unrealistic agenda risks backlash -- Wall Street Journal

• US shale expected to post record second-quarter profits, reversing decade of losses -- Bloomberg

• War, climate change, energy costs: How the wheat market has been upended -- The New York Times

• Hess makes oil discovery in US Gulf of Mexico; further drilling, appraisal wells to follow -- Upstream

• Hess upping Bakken production, oil markets seen tightening to year's end -- Natural Gas Intelligence

• America's new energy crisis: how it happened, what will it take to fix it? -- Wall Street Journal

• CA not counting methane leaks from idle wells in state's emissions inventory -- Minot Daily News

• US shale patch set to generate record profits; earnings suggest Q2 will be the best ever -- Oil Price

• Permian Basin producers raised production guidance and capital budgets for 2022 -- S&P Global

• Volatility continues to rule the marketplace with crude prices down; gas prices lower -- Hays Post

• OPEC+ to boost production in September by slower pace despite high prices -- Bismarck Tribune

• Bipartisan infrastructure bill thrusts blue hydrogen into the spotlight; is it 'clean enough' -- S&P Global

• OPEC's oil supply hike of 100K barrels/day shows limited powers to help Biden -- Bloomberg

• Summer gasoline demand in US drops below pandemic levels -- Yahoo Finance