Updates
February 1, 2013: see comment below regarding possibilities for Dickinson:
Calumet is proposing a diesel plant for the South Heart area. Also more natural gas plants in local area. Potential for Carbo Ceramics proppant plant further east. Dickinson has a big tank fabricator that needs to expand. Watford City, with 20,000, and Killdeer, with 5000+, will need a regional center to shop at and get services, as retail and consumer services can't get labor or housing for labor. Dickinson will be the Minot for the Bakken south of the river.
Original Post
Link here to The Dickinson Press. An additional 22,000 people are expected to settle in Dickinson over the next seven years, further stretching the city’s infrastructure as it struggles to keep up with water supply, wastewater and other issues.
At the end of the current biennium, the city is looking at $42.1 million of debt incurred from borrowing from the state’s revolving fund loan program for infrastructure costs, and could add $40.5 million of debt more on top of that if the state doesn’t step in to help.
Under a bill sponsored by Rep. Robert Skarphol, R-Tioga, $12 million would be granted to Dickinson to help fund water infrastructure needs through a change in the state’s oil and gas production tax allocation and impact aid program.
But Dennis Johnson, president of the Dickinson City Commission, said that is not nearly enough.I can never keep track of the North Dakota budget, but at this link, posted back in May, 2011:
- Total state budget, 2011 - 2013, $9.92 billion, an increase of 12.2 percent
