The state’s lignite industry represents an $18 billion investment with $2 billion allocated to technologies to reduce and capture criteria pollutants. North Dakota is one of 17 clean air states.
North Dakota remains a leader in its “all-of-the-above” energy policies and this year the Legislature stepped forward to ensure that the lignite industry continues to provide good paying jobs and low cost, reliable baseload power that benefits not only our state but surrounding states as well.
GRAND FORKS A few hoursâ drive from the Bakken oil fields lies a treasure trove for geologists: rock from nearly every oil well ever drilled in North Dakota, under one roof.
The rock is tucked neatly into cardboard boxes stacked on numerous warehouse storage shelves in the Wilson M. Laird Core and Sample Library on the University of North Dakota campus in Grand Forks.
âWeâve got about enough core to lay out from here to Fargo, 85 miles or so,â Director Jeff Bader said.
The library is part of the North Dakota Geological Survey and houses two forms of rock: core and drill cuttings. Core refers to cylinders of rock that oil companies pull out of the ground by attaching special bits to the end of their drills that make clean cuts as they preserve large chunks. Coring often is done when companies explore new places to establish wells.
by Patrick C. Miller (UND Today) After nearly 20 years of researching and developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies as a means of mitigating climate change, the UND Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) is on the verge of seeing the science put to commercial use in North Dakota.
An ethanol plant in Richardton operated by Red Trail Energy (RTE) LLC could become the first facility in North Dakota to commercially capture and permanently store carbon dioxide (CO
2) underground. It came a step closer to reality last month when RTE submitted a permit application to the state’s Department of Mineral Resources (DMR).