Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention; More Exciting Stories Coming Out Of The Bakken

There is a new transmission line being built from Center, ND, to Grand Forks, ND.

Center is about 50 miles northwest of Bismarck, well outside the Bakken oil patch. Center is about 200 miles west of Grand Forks as the crow flies; the transmission line will be about 250 miles long. The transmission line is apparently pretty much finished at the east end, but construction is now ready to begin out west.

The Milton R. Young power plant, a Minnkota Power Coop coal plant, is located at Center.

The Bismarck Tribune is reporting:

Target Logistics, best known for man camp housing in the oil patch, will move 16 mobile housing units into McClusky later this month.

The company is providing housing for up to 84 workers on the Minnkota Power Cooperative transmission line that will stretch from near Center to Grand Forks.

The line is mostly complete on the eastern end. The shift into McClusky signals startup of work on the western-Carrington-to-Center stretch, said Minnkota spokesman Kevin Fee.

The units, which are more mobile than the company's traditional modules in oil counties of Mountrail, Dunn and Williams, are currently located near McHenry in Foster County. Construction on the 345-kV line started in that region last summer.

Of passing interest, does Target Logistics not have any modules in McKenzie County?

Whatever. There are so many story lines in that little article one knows not where to start. So, we will move on.