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Gladstone leaders fear “a continual influx of people” is putting stress on the community’s water system.
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BELLE FOURCHE, S.D. (AP) — North Dakota’s oil boom brings with it tremendous wealth and enormous problems — and both are coming to South Dakota, industry experts say.
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BISMARCK (AP) — More than 3,800 acres of state property in North Dakota’s scenic Badlands won’t be leased for oil drilling while officials develop a policy for reviewing energy exploration on environmentally sensitive land, a state board decided Friday.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Some state property in western North Dakota's scenic Badlands won't be leased for oil exploration next week.
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BELLE FOURCHE, S.D. (AP) — The oil boom that has brought both wealth and woes to North Dakota is on its way to South Dakota — and experts say the state would be wise to prepare itself.
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MINOT, N.D. (AP) — Men from South Dakota and Texas have died in recent incidents in western North Dakota's oil patch.
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Chesapeake Energy, a major oil company with work sites south of Dickinson, is uprooting two rigs and could possibly move out of North Dakota, said Kelsey Campbell, coordinator of corporate development and government relations for the company.
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MEDORA — Between 80 and 100 acres of land off of Highway 85 north of Fairfield could be used for an oil and gas waste disposal site in about a year if local and state officials approve, John McCain, vice president and senior engineer of Carlson McCain, said during a Billings County Planning and Zoning Commission meeting Thursday at the Courthouse.
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BISMARCK (AP) — Booth space for an annual conference in North Dakota oil country went quickly after registration opened Wednesday morning, officials said.
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FARGO — Gov. Jack Dalrymple wants to review a list of pristine Badlands tracts that state game and fish officials have asked be spared from oil development.
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Hundreds of people concerned with the local impact of North Dakota’s oil boom gathered Thursday for a town hall in Belle Fourche, S.D. The meeting included a panel of experts to discuss how the town will prepare to absorb truck traffic and housing for new residents commuting to work on the oil fields.
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Chesapeake Energy, a major oil company with work sites south of Dickinson, is uprooting its two rigs and could possibly move out of North Dakota, said Kelsey Campbell, coordinator of corporate development and government relations for the company.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal officials say offshore wind farms from New Jersey to Virginia are closer to reality after a review showed the renewable energy source would leave no major environmental damage.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Officials say booth space for an annual conference in North Dakota oil country went quickly after registration opened Wednesday morning.
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BISMARCK (AP) — Enbridge Inc., one of western North Dakota’s major oil shippers, is asking state and federal regulators for permission to build a new oil pipeline beneath Lake Sakakawea.
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