While the rest of the country faces uncertainty, the Bakken is still keeping their small business owners busy. “Most of the customers I work with on the oil and gas front are staying very busy,” said Keith Olson, Regional Director of the North Dakota Small Business Development Centers (SBDC). “Right […]
Hunter Berg has a fantastic job these days. Finding students who want a “free education” at Williston State College. According to Hunter Berg, executive director, Williston State College Foundation, the university has been blessed by the Bakken Boom. Over the past 50 years, scholarships were created by the generosity of […]
A research paper, published in the journal Environmental Pollution, finds that California’s wildfires in 2020 caused twice the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that the state reduced between 2003 and 2019. In other words, 2020’s wildfire season, which set a record for the number of acres burned in the state, […]
Here are this week’s special guests and energy experts for The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 481. Dr. Loren Scott just finished his annual Economic Forecast for the State of Louisiana and the news is the economy is going to get better, but first it’s going to get worse. […]
Without water and electricity for a week or more, residents in Southwest Florida felt like they were in a war zone. Despite waiting for hours for a fill-up or to obtain gas for generators, motorists were thankful they had an internal combustion engine vehicle because electric vehicle owners without power […]
As much as 70 percent of European heating comes from natural gas and electricity, and with Russian deliveries drastically reduced, wood — already used by some 40 million people for heating — has become a sought-after commodity. Prices for wood pellets nearly doubled to 600 euros a ton in France, and there […]
Average U.S. gasoline prices hit $3.89 a gallon on October 17, up about 20 cents from a month ago, 56 cents higher than last year at this time, and $1.35 a gallon higher than when Biden took office on January 20, 2021. In March, gasoline prices hit $4 a gallon […]
Summit Carbon Solutions filed its application for a siting certificate with the North Dakota Public Service Commission this week. The company plans to capture carbon dioxide emissions from ethanol plants in five Midwestern states and pipe the CO2 to western North Dakota for permanent underground storage. The project will reduce the […]
This week the American Energy Alliance released its American Energy Scorecard for the United States Senate. The AEA scorecard scores voting and co-sponsorship decisions on legislation affecting energy and environmental policy, educating voters on how their senators vote and holding members accountable for those decisions. This year’s Senate scorecard compiles […]
Since the COVID Shutdowns more and more workers are working remotely and online. This workplace freedom is creating all sorts of new cost and productivity issues in areas and departments they’ve traditionally only seen in sales and executive levels. Those departments were, and are, given a little bit of slack […]
Terry Etam, author of The End of Fossil Fuel Insanity: Clearing the Air Before Cleaning the Air, columnist for the BOE Report and writer for Public Energy Number One, gives an update on the oil and gas activity north of the border. Canada’s Greatest Export shares a story about the […]
Here are this week’s guests for The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 480. The Crude Life Content News Correspondent Ken Lavin interviews Harold Hamm, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Continental Resources, after he spoke at Wildcatters Wednesday at The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma. Hamm talks about the importance […]
In response to President (Joe) Biden designating Camp Hale as a national monument, Western Energy Alliance today called on him to end policies threatening future conservation funding. The Denver-based trade association cautioned that programs under the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), which are funded almost exclusively by federal oil and natural […]
I’d like to tell you a personal story about how and why I stopped posting pictures of my child on the Internet. It was about halfway through my son’s 7th grade year in middle school when he asked me to stop posting pictures of him online because “he wanted to […]
Dr. Loren Scott just finished his annual Economic Forecast for the State of Louisiana and the news is the economy is going to get better, but first it’s going to get worse. The interview explains why from OPEC to European gas to natural disasters to Biden’s policy’s. “People should be […]
The Lakes Area Precious Plastics Lab and Springboard for the Arts have concluded their public showing of “Future Fossils,” a temporary land art project that is one of dozens across the Upper Midwest participating in the initiative, 4Ground: Midwest Land Art Biennial. The project was designed to raise awareness around […]
The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming is proposing 251,086 acres over 209 parcels in an upcoming oil and gas lease sale. BLM Wyoming’s second quarter 2023 oil and gas lease sale will be conducted in accordance with measures required by the federal Inflation Reduction Act, which became law in August […]
How your tax dollars and fear are used by Appointed Leaders and Elected Politicians to manipulate their information and your reality. By Jason Spiess, ESG University Who remembers Y2K? What do you remember about the global two-digit computer issue? Let’s take a minute and see how Y2K is vetted through […]
Here are this week’s guests for The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 479. Kenley Nebeker, executive director, TrainND Northwest and Levi Perkins, Perkins Electric Innovations explain what the EVolution Hybrid is all about. Curtis Shuck, Chairman, Well Done Foundation gives an update from Midland, Texas as well as their […]
Activity in the oil and gas sector expanded at a strong pace in the third quarter, according to oil and gas executives responding to the Dallas Fed Energy Survey. The business activity index—the survey’s broadest measure of conditions facing Eleventh District energy firms—remained elevated at 46.0 but below the 57.7 […]
The national average pump price for a gallon of gas maintained its recent surge, rising seven cents over the past week to hit $3.79. Tight supply and increased demand as more drivers fuel up are the main culprits. “The regional differences in gas prices are stark at the moment, with […]
This past April, ESG University penned, and then typed an ESG Classroom Column predicting a European trend that would be coming to the United States soon. And it did. Here’s what I wrote in April titled “An ESG World Premiere! Coming Soon To A Regulation Near You”. New sales of […]
Volunteers of all ages grabbed shovels and planted 150 trees for the 150th anniversary of Bismarck at New Generations Park. City of Bismarck Forester Doug Wiles kicked off the event with a short speech, followed by former Mayor Steve Bakken. Bakken thanked The Crude Life and The Industrial Forest for […]
Is your Social Media Manager managing your media or just being social? A little over a decade ago, the role of a social media manager was probably not one of your job titles around the office. Today, however, nearly all companies have a page, nearly every employee is involved in […]
Here are this week’s guests for The Crude Life Week In Review Episode 478. Kenley Nebeker, executive director, TrainND Northwest and Levi Perkins, Perkins Electric Innovations explain what the EVolution Hybrid is all about. Curtis Shuck, Chairman, Well Done Foundation gives an update from Midland, Texas as well as their […]
The Department of the Interior today announced that the Proposed Notice of Sale for Lease Sale 258 in Cook Inlet, Alaska will be available for review in the Federal Register tomorrow. In the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Congress directed that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) hold Lease Sale […]
The Industrial EVoultion has begun in the Bakken oilfields. In the heart of the Bakken, TrainND Northwest has taken on a project to help transition fossil fuel jobs and training into a hybrid world. “One of the things we looked at with the EVolution Hybrid is the future of the […]
Curtis Shuck has been extremely busy the past three years plugging orphan wells, monitoring methane levels and cutting through government bureaucracy. This past April, on Earth Day, The Crude Life interviewed Shuck regarding his recent orphan well work in Ohio and Louisiana, and Texas was off the radar due to […]
It is time to for all of us here to be adults and have an ESG Conversation about children. Currently children make up almost one-third of the world’s population and have major influence over the marketplace, legislation and corruption. Yes corruption. Believe it or not there are some people who […]
Part Two of Four covering the historical changes, issues, government intervention and solutions to America’s economy. Article originally appeared in ESG University We had to call an audible on Part Two of Four with this ESG University Classroom Column. Originally we were going to explain how the oil and gas […]
People say things are bigger in Texas and in this case it’s savings at the gas pump. New numbers from AAA Texas show the statewide gas price average is $3.21 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel which is 13 cents lower than last week. The national average for a […]
Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report “Global Retail Oil and Gas Logistics Market 2022-2026” – 1% during the forecast period. Our report on the retail oil and gas logistics market provides a holistic analysis, market size and forecast, trends, growth drivers, and challenges, as well as vendor analysis covering […]
It’s Back-To-School with Executive Coach, Podcaster and Professional Speaker Joe Sinnott of Witting Partners and The Energy Detox Podcast as he talks with Jason Spiess about the shift in the workplace, home life and society. The two discuss how the shift in energy can make the workplace a completely new […]
The Heritage Foundation launched a digital campaign this week, “ESG Hurts,” which is intended to “expose the agenda of the Environmental, Social, and Governance movement”. The campaign provides background information on the dangers of ESG, and also includes model state legislation for lawmakers looking to protect state pensions, investments and contracts. […]
Governments and non-profits have killed over 50% of the trees planted in the past 20 years, now corporations are killing them too. Originally published in at ESG University Did you know half the trees planted by non profits and city governments die within the first year? That’s billions of dollars […]
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