North Dakota
Letter: We're not going back
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In an Aug. 4th story, Gov. Burgum is quoted as saying a Walz vice presidency “would be negative for North Dakota.” But Walz – as Minnesota governor – has already been positive for the people of North Dakota. Minnesota’s
North Star Promise tuition plan
led North Dakota State University to try to match the Walz program of free tuition to students from families earning less than $80,000 per year. Walz’s leadership: a positive factor.
But it’s Walz’s clean energy efforts that really raise Burgum’s hackles.
Look, Burgum is obviously a very smart guy, with a Stanford MBA, a successful software business, and two terms as governor. Faced with devastating heat events, more powerful storms, floods, and costly disasters, he certainly can see that climate change is here and will increasingly impact the lives of North Dakotans. And he knows that the root cause of a changing climate is fossil fuel emissions.
And yet, instead of moving the state into the future of wind, solar, geothermal – as Abbott has done in Texas – he clings to coal. His stated goal of North Dakota being a zero-emissions state (made more feasible by the Biden/Harris Inflation Reduction Act’s generous tax credits for carbon capture) shows that he understands the need to reduce carbon emissions. But how much more state and federal money should North Dakota put into Project Tundra?
Walz may be a negative for Burgum’s coal interests, having enacted legislation carefully moving Minnesota’s energy production to zero emissions by 2040. But Walz’s action – and similar actions across the country – are very positive for the health of North Dakota’s people and the state’s agricultural sector. While it won’t happen tomorrow, technology is moving the country to a clean, dependable, and independent energy future with prices no longer subject to world events. Wind and solar alone are on pace to exceed the energy generated by coal in the USA this year.
I grew up in Fargo. As soon as I was able to lift a coal shovel, my job each winter night was to fill the hopper that fed our coal furnace. But that coal furnace was replaced by oil, then natural gas, and now, economically, by electric air source heat pumps.
Am I nostalgic about the past? Certainly. But I’m looking forward. We’re not going back.
Bruce Anderson lives in St. Cloud, Minn.
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Fargo sex offender registers address in Valley City
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FARGO — Robert Lee Feyh, 35, is a high-risk registered sex offender who registered at 3000 32nd Ave. S. in Fargo yesterday.
However, he has registered a new address in Valley City, North Dakota, according to a release from the Fargo Police Department.
Feyh is described in a release from the Fargo Police Department as 5 feet 3 inches, 198 pounds with brown hair and eyes.
“In 2022, Feyh was convicted of sexual assault in Richland County District Court in North Dakota,” the release states. “In 2008, Feyh was convicted of two counts of solicitation of a minor in Cass County District Court in North Dakota. The victim was a 14-year-old female.”
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Slight drop in oil, gas production in North Dakota for June
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BISMARCK, N.D. (KUMV) – June was a quiet month for North Dakota’s oil and gas industry.
In the latest Director’s Cut report, Department of Mineral Resources Assistant Director Mark Bohrer said oil production fell 2% to about 1.17 million barrels per day. Gas production saw a 1% drop to about 3.47 billion cubic feet of gas a day.
Bohrer said the drops stem from fewer wells and downtime at some gas plants.
He said it may be difficult to achieve the 1.3 million barrel mark by the end of the year, given the slow movement trends.
“I think it will be a struggle. We’ve had a couple months of down production. Hopefully, the July numbers will turn around and we’ll see a little bit of an uptick, but we’re hopeful,” said Bohrer.
Rig counts in the state have also held steady in the upper thirties.
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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library crosses construction milestone • Idaho Capital Sun
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MEDORA, North Dakota – The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library will produce its own heat and energy using geothermal sources.
The facility will emit zero carbon emissions, produce zero waste and serve as a catalyst for continued development in North Dakota’s scenic western border region.
And, as of this week, it’s halfway to completion.
“The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library will be one of the most sustainable museums in the world upon opening,” said Ed O’Keefe, the library’s CEO.
Donors, lawmakers and other dignitaries gathered Wednesday in Medora to celebrate the milestone of laying of the final steel beam into position, which marked the midpoint in the construction process.
“Theodore Roosevelt said, ‘Believe you can and you are halfway there.’ Folks, we are halfway there,” O’Keefe said during an on-site ceremony to more than 100 attendees.
The next goal for construction teams will be to beat the snow and frozen temperatures and enclose the structure by November so interior work can begin.
The library is scheduled to open to the public on July 4, 2026, to commemorate the country’s semiquincentennial.
“It’s going to be one of the 1,000 architectural wonders you need to see before you die,” O’Keefe said. “It’s really going to have a lot of significance for many different audiences.”
North Dakota ‘on a journey to create the best presidential library in the nation’
During the event, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum said the beam placement was only the beginning of milestones for the presidential library.
“We’re on a journey to create the best presidential library in the nation,” Burgum said. “There’s 14 others, but this will be the best. This will have the biggest impact on generations to come.”
Burgum, along with first lady Kathryn Burgum and other visiting officials, signed the last steel beam before it was raised into position in what will become The Arena at the Roosevelt library, commemorating one of the 26th president’s famous speeches.
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The governor noted another famous quote from Roosevelt, who said he would not have been president if not for his time in North Dakota.
“All that will come here will draw inspiration from that life that Roosevelt lived, the courageous and bold life, and … they’ll learn about his time that he spent here,” Burgum said.
U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., said one his favorite parts about the library and its design is how it incorporates itself into the landscape of the Badlands and Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
“This is so Roosevelt, right?” Cramer said. “So much of construction and development replaces nature with a structure. In this case, they’ve built a structure into nature and that tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt so beautifully and with such integrity.”
Cramer, Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., and Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D., spearheaded an effort to acquire the land and federal funding for the project across three different bills in Congress. One of the bills, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Act, would allocate $50 million to the project through the U.S. Department of the Interior and grant access for the library to display some of Roosevelt’s personal items that are housed at various federal agencies. The legislation was introduced in April.
Cramer said he’s hopeful the bill will be added to a continuing resolution to fund the federal government and appropriated by the end of the year. If not, he joked with Hoeven during the event that they may not come home for Christmas. He also added that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is from New York, Roosevelt’s home state.
“As long as he’s not bitter about North Dakota getting the project, he should help us preserve Theodore Roosevelt’s heritage,” Cramer said.
The library’s foundation has raised $320 million of a revised $450 million fundraising goal, O’Keefe said. Fundraisers are hopeful to add the federal $50 million to that total before the end of the year.
Joe Wiegand, a Theodore Roosevelt impersonator who stars in a one-man show in Medora, said he thinks the library will appeal to multiple generations.
“That really is the cornerstone of the Roosevelt experience,” Wiegand said. “It’s a family experience … it’s not just for guys in suits, it’s not just for historians, it’s for the families of this country and the families of the world who will come out and be inspired.”
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