$400 Million Urea Fertilizer Plant In The Works For Beulah, North Dakota -- September 7, 2015

Another huge project slated for western North Dakota. The Bismarck Tribune is reporting:

DGC’s owner Basin Electric Power Cooperative is building the [$400 million] urea plant near Beulah, North Dakota, to take advantage of byproducts from the process of making natural gas from lignite coal.

The project’s been in the works for two years and with site preparation now wrapping up, trade workers are moving in, said communications manager Joan Dietz. In varying numbers, with up to 750 at peak, they’ll be on site through 2016, she said.

The article has to do with a proposed man-camp for all those workers, but the man-camp was voted down by the Beulah Planning and Zoning Board: the Beulah folks loved the concept -- the idea of a man-camp -- but NIMBY. 

Some thought it would be better to build permanent housing for those folks, despite the fact that most of them would be on site for less then 18 months, maybe less than 12 months.

My suggestion: lodge them in Bismarck -- it's just an hour away.

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