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If you drove through the Bakken a few years ago, you would have seen dozens of new hotels, RV parks and mobile homes that popped up when the oil rigs…
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The Public Service Commission has dismissed a complaint filed against an oil refinery project planned for Belfield.The complaint was filed by…
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A new study shows sharply increased electricity demand in western North Dakota’s Oil Patch.As Prairie Public’s Dave Thompson reports, that demand is…
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Mandan’s Tesoro refinery has been expanding.It just finished adding 10,000 barrels per day of gasoline refining capacity – bringing that to 60,000 barrels…
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Brian Martindale drives truck in North Dakota, but his family is back home in Minnesota. He’s married with three young children, all under the age of…
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Boomtowns bring with them appetites. Restaurants catering to oil workers in western North Dakota try to meet diners’ demand. But waits are long, and so…
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The oil boom of western North Dakota is mostly a man’s game. The number of men working on rigs tripping pipe far outweighs the few female faces found…
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School buses have always had to share the road with other vehicles. But in oil country, country roads and highways now throb with traffic. And fatality…
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Williston’s population continues to grow.And the latest projection says the city could double in size by 2025.Williston Mayor Ward Koeser says so far, the…
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Much of Bakken crude oil from western North Dakota is leaving the state via rail.State mineral resources director Lynn Helms says 47 percent of Bakken…
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The state of North Dakota wants to become the first in the nation to be able to regulate the capture and use of carbon dioxide from energy production.The…
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Fast food restaurants, grocery stores and motels in North Dakota’s oil patch have come to rely on student workers from abroad, places like China, Eastern…