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Rep. Howe: Well, the biggest budget, I guess, that I m carrying and I think, really, in the section was the Industrial Commission budget. So, the Industrial Commission budget includes the Bank of North Dakota, the Mill and Elevator, the Department of Mineral Resources, the Pipeline Authority. There s about four or five more budgets in the Industrial Commission budget. That just passed the House of Representatives. Started in the Senate as a Senate bill. It just passed the House yesterday or two days ago. That will certainly be going to conference. There s a lot of different moving parts that as you can imagine, with all those different budgets, different ideas for banking programs, different programs within the Department of Mineral Resources. We are always trying to look to expand our economy. We would love to attract. Yeah, we would love to attract the petrochemical industry to North Dakota. There s a salt caverns study within the Industrial Commission budget that woul ....
Rolling blackouts hurt North Dakota oil production Q2 News photo and last updated 2021-04-16 00:47:59-04 Rolling blackouts that cut power to the Bakken oil fields during February s deep freeze also cut North Dakota s oil production by as much as six percent. The North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources reported recently that the power problems slashed the state s oil production by more than a million barrels in February. Agency Director Lynn Helms says that decrease in production was twice what his agency anticipated. The February deep freeze forced the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) to conduct rolling blackouts across its system. Helms said those outages affected Mckenzie, Williams and Dunn counties, three of North Dakota s top oil-producing areas. Helms said the blackouts came with little warning over two days in mid-February, forcing several North Dakota natural gas plants offline for hours. ....
Dec 28, 2020 Farm Credit organizations in western North Dakota recently announced 10 grants totaling $169,000 to worthy programs that will improve lives in local communities through the Rural Community Grant Fund. The fund was established as a partnership between Farm Credit Services of Mandan and Farm Credit Services of North Dakota – the two largest providers of agricultural loans in western North Dakota – and AgriBank Farm Credit Bank, their St. Paul, Minn.-based funding bank, to help communities impacted by mineral development. “The Rural Community Grant Fund continues to support our rural communities and provide funding for organizations impacted by oil exploration in the Bakken Region,” said Gordon Hanson – CEO Farm Credit Services of ND. “It is our goal to assist the worthy projects of these organizations in order to strengthen the essential local services they provide,” he added. Grants support critical community needs such as healthcare, safety and ....