NOG: #7 -- Fortune's Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies; $70 Million Expansion At Sugar Factory; Lowest Unemployment Rates in the US: Bismarck, #1; Fargo, #2; Grand Forks, #7

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NOG is #7 on Fortune's 100 fastest-growing companies. All companies. Incredible 

Whiting Petroleum is #70. 

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Meanwhile, unemployment across the US:

• Bismarck: #1
• Fargo: #2
• Grand Forks: #7

Healthiest states to live:

North Dakota among the top five: he happiest and healthiest state to live in the future may be Utah, according to a new Gallup poll that finds the Beehive State leads the nation in more than a dozen forward-looking metrics, such as intellectual curiosity, a healthy work environment, and low smoking rates. Rounding out the top five best U.S. states for future living are Minnesota, Colorado, Nebraska and North Dakota.

Hawaii, ranked #1 in 2011, is in the top ten this year. This year (2012):

• Utah
• Minnesota
• Colorado 
• Nebraska
• North Dakota

$70 million, major expansion at Minn-Dak's sugar beet factory; Wahpeton (North Dakota side of the border)

The board of Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative of Wahpeton, N.D., voted Aug. 28 to go ahead with a $70.3 million plan to build a molasses desugarization plant as an add-on to its sugar beet factory.  

The desugarization and load-out facility will be a major expansion of the plant, says David Roche, the company’s president and chief executive. It will add 20 additional jobs. The two-year construction period will begin in September.

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