Geoff Simon's Top Stories For The Week -- December 24, 2022

Quick connects. 

Last week's blizzard shut down one-third of Bakken total production.

Land Board completes acreage adjustment.

• $130 million returned to private mineral owners
• this was Part II of the 2-part adjustment
• issue: ordinary high water mark west of the Fort Berthold reservation
• Part I: east of US Highway 85
• Part II: west of US Highway 85
• surveys here;

Basin Electric to add 350 miles of high-voltage transmission in western ND over the next five years; archived.

• one of the first phases: Neset-to-Northshore; New Town to Tioga
• expected to be energized January, 2023 (next month)

North Dakota population closes in on 780,000

• a new estimate released by the U.S. Census Bureau shows that North Dakota’s population reached a new all-time high of 779,261 residents as of July 1, 2022.
• the 2021 estimate indicated population had declined.