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Project Safe Send: 20 years of convenient and free contaminant disposal
By DEBORA DRAGSETH For the Tribune Take a look under your sink, storage shed or in the back corner of your garage. Any old rat poison or a rusty can of roach spray? A weed killer you vaguely remember buying sometime in the 1980s? Instead of wreaking havoc on the environment by pouring a dangerous [...]
Tesoro breaks ground on refinery expansion
By HANNA BUSH Bismarck Tribune Construction has started on the expansion of Tesoro Corp.’s crude oil refinery in Mandan, spurred by oil development in western North Dakota, a growing demand for diesel fuel and some timely help from the weather. The company announced its plan to expand the plant in March. The goal is to [...]
Antelope Valley Station: Clean coal technology
Submitted photo: Each of the twin Antelope Valley Station units has the capacity to produce 450 megawatts of electricity. Unit 1, right, came online in 1984. Unit 2 came online in 1986. By Debora Dragseth For the Tribune Daryl Hill’s smile is as sunny and welcoming as the quintessential North Dakota morning. It’s been 33 [...]
Energy Updates
Ft. Berthold meetings postponed Oil and gas update meetings on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation planned for February have been postponed until March. Three Affiliated Tribes chairman Marcus Levings said this postponement is the result of the death of Crow Nation tribal chairman Carl Venne. The new meeting dates are as follows: March 17, Parshall [...]
Energy Potential: Bismarck native takes over as director of Pipeline Authority
When that omniscient voice whispered its famous advice to a farmer in an Iowa cornfield in the movie “Field of Dreams,” Kevin Costner listened. And when North Dakota State University instructors offered their counsel a few years ago to one of their students, Justin Kringstad listened, too. “They told me ‘If you love geology, you [...]
Mitch Griess: Combining industry and art
Young adults occasionally feel a tug toward a future career path, whether that direction comes from circumstances – or beckons from within. As a teen in high school, graphic artist Mitch Griess felt the tug. He could sketch or draw things with clarity — realistic representations. The talent was there, but the timing wasn’t right. [...]
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