Friday, August 22, 2025

Alison Ritter's Quick Connects -- August 22, 2025

Locator: 48930B.

Quick connects:

Applied Digital plans $3 billion hyperscale 'AI factory' north of Fargo -- Jamestown Sun
Chevron announces 70 person workforce reduction in North Dakota -- Minot Daily News
Hennen: North Dakota's energy advantage: Powering innovation at GrandSKY -- InForum
State's energy future brightened by One Big Beautiful Bill, says WDEA leader -- WZFG
BLM announces October 2025 sale of oil and gas leases in North Dakota, to offer 4 parcels -- BLM
Black Hills Corp and NorthWestern Energy to merge into one electric and gas company -- Dakota News Now
PSC formally weighs in on updated DAPL environmental impact statement -- Prairie Public Newsroom
Many North Dakotans are receiving smaller checks from oil companies pumping on their land -- MPR
U.S. Department of Energy sends $3.8 million to North Dakota for energy saving programs -- Kevin Cramer
Arkansas joins states backing North Dakota PSC's challenge to power grid upgrade costs -- KTLO
US Interior Dept. approves expansion of federal coal mine in Montana, protects 300 jobs -- CoalZoom
Utilities brace for staggering power demands coming from AI, data centers in Wyoming -- WyoFile
Total of eleven North Dakota children and teens have gone missing in 17 days -- Dickinson Press
Ethics candidates to face questions on what agency's role should be in government -- North Dakota Monitor
State's West Nile cases rise to 26; 11 hospitalized, 9 with nervous system complications -- Dickinson Press
Grand Forks Rep. Emily O'Brien resigns to take job with Health & Human Services -- Grand Forks Herald
President Trump endorses North Dakota's US Rep. Julie Fedorchak for reelection -- Bismarck Tribune
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribal nation hosts North Dakota officials and legislators -- North Dakota Monitor
Crosby Kids Daycare cuts enrollment as staffing shortage forces capacity reduction -- The Journal
McKenzie County Commissioners to stop financially backing Williston airport operations -- KFYR - TV
Jeffrey Fair wins vacant seat on Killdeer Commission and will serve until 2026 -- Dickinson Press
Minot City Council accepting applications for vacant seat through Thursday August 28 -- Minot Daily News
McKenzie County Commissioners release preliminary budget set at around $186 million -- KFYR - TV
Legislative committee seeks to advance solutions for rural emergency services -- North Dakota Monitor
Russell Murphy earns the most votes in Dickinson city commission special election -- KX News
North Dakota University System names Meredith Larson vice chancellor -- Minot Daily News
North Dakota Energy Education launches with refreshed, new leadership of Shawn Brink -- Minot Daily News
American Experiment North Dakota to launch online platform to support charter school founders -- KX News
Minot State receives $500K to expand STEM education and research to rural students in ND -- KFYR - TV
Superintendent Jason Germundson aims to bring stability, positivity to Williston School District -- KFYR - TV
Officials at the Williston Basin School District are considering this year a transition period -- KFYR - TV
Divide County School District welcomes four new teachers for first day with a fifth on the way -- The Journal
Mobile classroom dubbed the 'STEAM Engine' picks up momentum across the state -- Dickinson Press
Higher education board chair favors keeping interim leader of North Dakota colleges -- North Dakota Monitor
Literacy grant awarded to Divide County School District back in March has been rescinded -- The Journal
Glenn Perkins Foundation awards Divide County Elementary $120K for new cabinets -- The Journal
Minot Public Schools fully staffed with certified teachers; 50 new this school year -- KFYR - TV
Minot's Risha Bergstrom recognized as Ward County Teacher of the Year for 2025 -- Minot Daily News
Dickinson school leaders and students greeted with new Mavericks mascot to kick off the year -- KFYR - TV
Trump administration places even stricter phase-outs for wind and solar subsidies -- Washington Examiner
USDA announces it will no longer support solar and wind projects on productive farmland -- Reuters
Wright: 'We're going to get blamed' for rising power prices ? but they're Democrats' fault -- E&E News
DOE extends emergency order to delay retiring Consumers Energy Michigan coal plant -- Utility Dive
Electric transformers becoming an overlooked vulnerability that could cripple America's grid -- Oil Price
The winning strategy to achieve energy dominance cannot only be based upon tariffs -- RealClearEnergy
Mergers and acquisitions in US oil and gas more than quadrupled last year despite softer prices -- Reuters
Gavin Newsom warms to Big Oil in climate reversal; seeks to boost production -- News from the States
'Drill, baby, drill' is working wonders; fracking and horizontal drilling triple production -- Minot Daily News
China's electricity generation from coal and gas soars to highest in a year amid record heat -- Oil Price
Not just electricity ? water supplies will be taxed by resource-hungry data centers -- Minnesota Reformer
Environmental extremists challenge new DOE climate assessment, demand censoreship -- CFACT
Trump team plans more attacks on the climate cult, global warming debate planned -- Climate Depot
The EPA's era of wasting billions of dollars on corrupt green energy scams has ended -- Townhall