Oil

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee is touring the western North Dakota oil patch.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Conservation advocates who want to set aside a bigger slice of North Dakota's oil revenues for an outdoor heritage fund have taken the next step toward bringing the idea to a public vote.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — State lawmakers from West Virginia are coming to North Dakota to learn more about the state's savings account for oil and gas taxes.

MINOT, N.D. (AP) — An alliance working to protect the environment and history of the Killdeer Mountains in western North Dakota's oil patch wants state regulators to reconsider how oil is being tapped there.

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota's Land Board has awarded 1.4 million in state grants to law enforcement agencies in North Dakota's oil-production region.

Adding fuel to the current "pipeline" controversy, comes this speculation from Scientific American magazine: transporting of oil by rail is likely to increase in the near future.

Authorities have attached a name to a recent fatality in the North Dakota oil fields.

The State Senate has unanimously pass an oil extraction bill.

The company that planned to drill four wells near Elkhorn Ranch (the site of Teddy Roosevelt's cabin), have suspended the project (full story from the Trib here)... To which we can only say, "bully"...

ND Gov. Dalrymple, more than anyone, will make the call on whether Exxon/Mobil can drill near the Elkhorn Ranch (and Teddy Roosevelt's cabin). Now we learn that the governor's portfolio includes some Exxon/Mobil stock (the Tribune has the full story here)...