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North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said he expects the state to file a lawsuit against Minnesota over its plan to tax carbon dioxide created by electrical generation.The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission wants to add a fee of $4 to $34 per ton of carbon dioxide to the cost of electrical generation starting in 2012. The majority of electricity in North Dakota is generated by coal-fired power plants, which emit carbon dioxide.
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A pipeline company's project to carry more crude oil from western North Dakota and eastern Montana is set to be completed Friday, state and industry officials said.Enbridge Pipeline North Dakota LLC has upgraded 11 pumping stations in North Dakota along a pipeline that runs from northwestern North Dakota to Clearbrook, Minn., said Justin Kringstad, director of the North Dakota Pipeline Authority.
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North Dakota's oil patch will set a production record in 2009, despite a year that began with depressed crude prices and a drop in drilling activity, state and industry officials said.North Dakota will produce about 80 million barrels of oil in 2009, up from a record 62.8 million barrels last year, said Lynn Helms, director of the state Department of Mineral Resources. Final production numbers won't be known until sometime in the first quarter of 2010.
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Four people involved in a June standoff in North Dakota that followed an Alabama prison break have pleaded guilty to charges including attempted murder, robbery and reckless endangerment.Joshua Southwick, Angela Mink and her brother, Ashton Mink, entered pleas Tuesday.
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North Dakota is ending the decade with its highest population since 2000, according to Census Bureau figures released Wednesday.The state's population grew by 5,423 people from July 2008 to July 2009, keeping it the 48th most populous state, the Census Bureau said.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court's decision to dismiss a lawsuit by two North Dakota farmers who said they should be allowed to grow industrial hemp without fear of federal criminal prosecution.Wayne Hauge and David Monson received North Dakota's first state licenses to grow industrial hemp nearly three years ago, but they've never received approval from the Drug Enforcement Administration. The farmers sued the DEA, and their case has been before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for more than a year after U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland dismissed it.
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Federal oil and gas lease sales in the Dakotas and Montana set a record in fiscal 2009, with parcels in western North Dakota's booming oil patch accounting for the overwhelming bulk of interest, the Bureau of Land Management said Monday.Oil and gas lease sales in the three states totaled $75.4 million during fiscal 2009, which ended in September, said Greg Albright, a BLM spokesman in Billings, Mont.
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North Dakota's 2009 potato crop is estimated at 19.1 million hundredweight, down 16 percent from last year and the lowest production in nine years.The Agriculture Department says harvested acres are down 7 percent, and the average yield is down 9 percent from last year's record of 280 hundredweight per acre.
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Raising North Dakota's taxes on beer, wine and liquor would provide up to $2 million a year for programs that teach about the dangers of underage and binge drinking, says an advocate who wants a statewide vote on the issue.Duane Peterson, of Gwinner in southeastern North Dakota, is leading an effort to raise the taxes and earmark part of the revenue for alcohol treatment and prevention grants.
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Authorities say a Wisconsin man who died after the semitrailer he was driving crashed on U.S. Highway 2 in North Dakota likely suffered a heart attack.The Ramsey County sheriff's office says 49-year-old Timothy Birtzer of Durand, Wis., was pronounced dead at a Devils Lake hospital following the crash late Tuesday morning.
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