Dakota Resource Council

BISMARCK -- A federal judge says a North Dakota conservation group failed to prove that state Public Service Commission policy changes on the coal industry were in violation of federal law or caused any harm. The Dakota Resource Council, a Dickinson-based nonprofit conservation...

A citizens' lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Dacotah Chapter of the Sierra Club and the Dakota Resource Council alleges that North Dakota Public Service commissioners violated federal campaign contribution laws. The lawsuit claims that since 2006 Commissioners Kevin Cramer, Brian Kalk...

The U.S. is finally taking note of North Dakota, not only because of the flooding, but because of a much larger issue: oil. This week, Bismarck hosted the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission's mid-year meeting, convening nearly every governor in the nation. Let's hope that...

Public Service commissioners Brian Kalk and Kevin Cramer should recuse themselves from decisions regarding a South Heart coal mine project because of campaign contributions they received, four organizations said in letters hand delivered to the two today.

The Dakota Resource Council urged the review of a possible coal mining application near South Heart by federal officials in a letter written to the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement in Wyoming, according to a recent press release. South Heart Coal LLC, which is...

BISMARCK (AP) -- A North Dakota environmental group wants government regulators to investigate whether a Canadian company used faulty steel in the construction of a pipeline that moves crude oil from Canada through six states. Dickinson-based Dakota Resource Council says TransCanada...

Believing the GTL Energy plant is not connected to a coal mine requires ignoring a lot of facts. South Heart Coal, LLC put together more than 5,300 acres of coal leases adjacent to the current GTLE site in 2003. Great Northern Power Development owned many of those mineral acres....