North Dakota
North Dakota extends deadline for gas pipeline proposals
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A panel that regulates North Dakota’s power trade voted Monday to increase the deadline for proposals to construct a pure fuel pipeline from western North Dakota’s oil patch to the japanese a part of the state.
The three-member, all-Republican North Dakota Industrial Fee headed by Gov. Doug Burgum moved the deadline for proposals to Aug. 15 after no purposes have been obtained by the deadline this month.
The North Dakota Legislature in November put aside $150 million in federal coronavirus support to assist assemble such a trans-state pipeline for pure fuel, which is a byproduct of oil manufacturing. The concept, pushed by Burgum, was to assist minimize down on the wasteful flaring at nicely websites and pipe it to communities within the gas-poor japanese a part of the state, hoping to spur industrial improvement.
Regardless of the promised subsidies, no purposes have been submitted for the pipeline.
WBI Vitality, a subsidiary of Bismarck-based MDU Sources Group, stated the mission is just not viable resulting from regulatory uncertainty, restricted in-state demand and rising development, labor and land-acquisition prices. MDU sources is North Dakota’s solely Fortune 500 firm.
WBI Vitality owns and operates greater than 3,700 miles of transmission and storage pipelines within the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana and Wyoming.