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Got a farmer in your family? Now's the time to nag.
Days begin at 4:30 a.m. and end after a sullen and nostalgic gaze at our sleeping children. He knows not what day it is, mondaytuesdaysaturday, they all run together. My husband, likely like someone i...
Posted on 5/14/13 at 9:38 AM
Oil Patch cities can apply early for energy impact grants
BISMARCK Communities in North Dakotas Oil Patch can get a jump start on applying for a new round of energy impact grants, even though final legislative action has not yet been taken. Cities can subm...
Posted on 4/2/13 at 9:23 AM
Real Oilfield Wives and more new blogs!
It's been awhile since I've given you my recommendations for new blogs to check out here on Areavoices. But three new blogs have crossed my path and I felt compelled to share them. The first is calle...
Posted on 3/13/13 at 4:01 PM
The Low Has Arrived
After a summer of decently good mental health and a bit of a manic time last week (I even started a business!), the low is quickly approaching. I shared with my staff at work yesterday that it is here...
Posted on 8/24/12 at 7:30 AM
The Good, the Bad and the Abysmally, Painfully Awful
Apparently, the movie Battleship is about as bad as you would have expected it to be. I have a hard time believing any movie could be as bad as Transformers was, but apparently this hits that low mark...
Posted on 5/23/12 at 1:26 PM
Gas prices headed for a record in North Dakota
Gasoline prices are on the rise and headed to a record in North Dakota.May 17, 2013
Interior issues new drilling rule on public land
By BY Matthew Daly,Associated Press , May 17, 2013
Helms: Keystone XL would save lives
By By Amy Dalrymple, Forum News Service , May 16, 2013
Lawmakers push to restore mineral funds
A bipartisan group of western lawmakers is pushing legislation in Washington to restore cuts of $110 million in federal mineral royalty payments to 35 states.By By Ben Neary, Associated Press , May 15, 2013
Ethanol plant now stores N.D. crude
An ethanol plant on the Columbia River that was built with the help of $36 million in Oregon state loans and tax credits is now being used to store and ship crude oil from North Dakota.May 15, 2013
U.S. boom transforming global oil market
The surge in oil production in the U.S. and Canada and shrinking oil consumption in the developed world is transforming the global oil market.By By Jonathan Fahey, Associated Press , May 15, 2013
List alone won’t be enough
If the North Dakota Industrial Commission is serious, more of the state’s “culturally important” places might be off limits to oil, gas and other potentially damaging development. The commission, at the behest of member Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, intends to visit specific places this summer with the goal of putting them on a list that might afford the sites some degree of protection.By The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead , May 15, 2013
Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths
CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. (AP) — It happens about once a month here, on the barren foothills of one of America's green-energy boomtowns: A soaring golden eagle slams into a wind farm's spinning turbine and falls, mangled and lifeless, to the ground.By Dina Cappiello, Associated Press , May 14, 2013
Columbia River ethanol plant now exports crude oil
An ethanol plant on the Columbia River that was built with the help of $36 million in Oregon state loans and tax credits is now being used to store and ship crude oil.May 14, 2013
Growing Dickinson could face water restrictions
Could Dickinson residents face a water rationing scenario as soon as next year? With residential, city and industrial uses all requiring their share of the precious resource, the short answer is maybe.By By Bryan Horwath, Forum News Service , May 14, 2013
Dickinson residents could face water rationing
Dickinson residents could be asked to ration their water use as western North Dakota continues to grapple with population growth.May 13, 2013
ND to develop list of 'culturally important' sites
North Dakota plans to compile a list of “culturally important” places that officials will protect from energy development or other disturbances.May 13, 2013
EERC on UND campus lays off 3 percent of workforce
The Energy and Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks is eliminating eight of its 270 jobs.May 09, 2013
Scratch-and-sniff cards prompt natural gas scare
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — Those scratch-and-sniff cards the energy company sends to customers to teach them to recognize the artificial smell added to natural gas? Turns out they work pretty well.By Associated Press , May 08, 2013
Oil pipeline in ND and MN restarted after leaks
Enbridge Inc. has resumed shipping crude oil through a pipeline between western North Dakota and northern Minnesota after two shutdowns within a week due to leaks.May 08, 2013
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