The Latest News: ND 

  • North Dakota oil activity leads to infrastructure, funding concerns -- Grand Forks Herald
    August 31, 2010
    re going to have to get ahead of the game and be ready to go when the Legislature starts,? Growing infrastructure and funding concerns spawning from rampant oil activity, along with the area?
  • Google funds housing for low-income families, senior citizens -- Total Telecom
    August 31, 2010
    Googles money will be managed by U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corp. or USBCDC, an arm of commercial bank U.S. Bancorp that invests in community projects. Google also has a philanthropic arm, Google. Google Inc. has invested $86 million in a tax-credit fund to finance the construction of 480 low-income housing units, a move that comes as the Internet search giant ramps up its engagement in the public sphere.
  • Montana And North Dakota Oil Exploration And Production -- TheStreet.com
    August 30, 2010
    Efforts to produce the oil have historically met with difficulties. A rekindled oil boom developed in 2007 when EOG Resources (NYSE:EOG) reported that a single well it had drilled into an oil-rich layer of shale below Parshall, North Dakota was expected to produce 700,000 barrels of oil.
  • Governor says rulingwill benefit oil industry -- Sidney Herald
    August 29, 2010
    Oil producers told me they want to get on that pipeline,? Interest was heavily generated by oil producers, Schweitzer said, convincing TransCanada officials to consider letting oil producers from both states to get on the 1,980-mile pipeline.
  • Enbridge pipeline expansion will double North Dakota oil shipping capacity -- DCExaminer.com
    August 24, 2010
    Enbridge, which is based in Calgary, Alberta, said the projects will be built by two affiliates, Enbridge Energy Partners LP in the United States and Enbridge Income Fund in Canada. Enbridge currently can ship about 161,500 barrels of oil daily from western North Dakotas Bakken and Three Forks shale rock formations.
  • Personal attacks -- Minot Daily News
    August 22, 2010
    So, they attack responsible experts in the field to try to revive a dead bill. The American people want real solutions. They want an energy policy that encourages the use of our own resources, whether fossil fuels, ethanol, biofuels, wind, or other renewable energy sources.
  • DOE Awards Funding for Synfuels Projects -- DownstreamToday.com
    August 20, 2010
    GTI will demonstrate how the pellets/briquettes are rugged enough to withstand transportation and piling and show how the pellets/briquettes can be processed into a crushed or pulverized product suitable for use in a commercial coal gasifier.
  • Montana and North Dakota Oil Exploration and Production -- Oil Investing News
    August 20, 2010
    Feature Articles, Oil Articles Share In 1951 a significant oil discovery was made on the Bakken Formation, which is a very old geological deposit occupying about 520,000
  • Is the party over for Google? -- MarketWatch
    August 20, 2010
    And so far in 2010, investors dont have all that much to be happy about with Google stock. By Jeff Reeves ROCKVILLE, Md. (MarketWatch) -- Since it joined the stock market six years ago, on Aug. 19, 2004, Google stock has seen relentless growth.
  • DOE Selects 8 Projects to Advance Technologies for the Co-Production of Power and Hydrogen, Fuels or Chemicals from Coal-Biomass Feedstocks -- Green Car Congress
    August 20, 2010
    Work in area 3 will result in the development of conceptual designs for co-production facilities incorporating advanced, novel concepts. Projects in this area will focus on the development and characterization of multiple coal-biomass mixtures and types that are transportable, storable, and accommodate direct co-feeding into gasification systems.