Print Column: The Left’s Climate Change Eschatology Obstructs Real Progress Like the Davis Refinery
MINOT, N.D. — “Today in reading the news I realized you could replace the words ‘climate change’ with ‘God’s wrath,’”...
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Plain Talk: Meridian Energy CEO Says Davis Refinery Will Produce Less Pollution Than Theodore Roosevelt National Park
With two different legal battles going before the North Dakota Supreme Court, the fight over building the Davis Refinery in...
Print Column: In the Fight Over Oil, It’s Progressives Against Progress
MINOT, N.D. — The fight over the Davis Refinery, a crude oil project backed by Meridian Energy Group, has been...
Regulations Should Facilitate Industry Not Block It
Regulations put in place to govern the development of things like oil pipelines and refineries were intended to facilitate those...
Podcast: Cramer/Heitkamp Debates, Kanye West, the David Refinery, Meridian CEO Bill Prentice, Commissioner Randy Christmann
On the radio show today North Dakota Public Service Commissioner Randy Christmann joined me to talk about a proposal to...
Judge Reviewing Davis Refinery Situation Says State Regulators Can’t Expand Their Jurisdiction Based on Speculation
The Dakota Resource Council, a local front group for the national environmental movement to impede fossil fuel development, has recently...
Julie Fedorchak: Feeling a Duty to Engage
Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak submitted this guest post in response to my recent open letter critical of some of...
North Dakota’s Flaring Problem Has Its Roots in Excessive Regulation
The environmental activism aimed at impeding, and sometimes even blocking, the build-out of energy infrastructure such as pipelines and refineries/processing...
Let’s Not Move the Regulatory Goal Posts on the Davis Refinery
Building major energy infrastructure projects like pipelines or refineries is really, really hard. There are reams of federal, state, and...
An Open Letter to Public Service Commissioner Julie Fedorchak
Dear Julie, I think you're a great public servant. I'm glad you're on the Public Service Commission. It pleased me...
