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Let Them Eat Crude

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As we’ve mentioned a few times in this space, North Dakota has given us plenty of reasons in recent years for consideration as our top-ranked state for economic growth potential. Now comes news that North Dakota is running out of rail cars and doesn’t have enough rail lines to efficiently use the freight haulers it has.

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Some of the Oldest Buildings in the U.S.

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Kittson was an important fur trader, steamboat proprietor, and railroad entrepreneur in the Pembina County and Red River area of North Dakota. An American Fur Company agent, Norman Kittson established this trading post in 1843 to take advantage of the local Red River Valley’s prosperous fur trade.

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PSMJ Resources Blog: MHC says starts rise in August; housing is.

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The widening will allow large cargo ships that currently anchor in California and use trucks or the railroad to move goods to the East Coast to sail directly to New Jersey… To prepare for an influx of larger ships the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans to raise the Bayonne Bridge by 2016. [The “Bridgestone Corp.

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LOCATION FOCUS: California Dreamin’ – A Rebound Fueled By New Energy

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The key to that positive change resides in the same place in California it did in North Dakota—buried more than a mile underground in the middle of a huge shale deposit. Barstow is where an eclectic mix of railroad, military, high technology, and mining employers have located. Updated May 9, 2001.

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State by State Incentives Guide

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Funds may be provided for the construction and/or improvement of water lines & wastewater facilities, sewer lines, sewage treatment facilities, roadways, natural gas-line services, electric power services, railroad spurs, lighting, sidewalks and alternative power sources such as solar. Railroad Spurs. NORTH DAKOTA.

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

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Funds may be provided for the construction and/or improvement of water lines & wastewater facilities, sewer lines, sewage treatment facilities, roadways, natural gas-line services, electric power services, railroad spurs, lighting, sidewalks and alternative power sources such as solar. NORTH DAKOTA.

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Cover Story: New Energy Powers Growth

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states with service to all six Class I railroads, and offers more than 7,300 miles of oil pipeline and 11,200 miles of gas pipeline. States poised for major growth in wind energy in coming years include Iowa, Kansas, Texas, Nebraska, North Dakota and Michigan. times that of the Nos.