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Port: Democrats set to repeat their oil boom blunder

The party is again opposing major energy projects after losing ground statewide, while oil revenues still fund schools, infrastructure upgrades and tax relief.

Summary by Inforum
MINOT — When the oil boom came to North Dakota, our Democratic friends aligned themselves against it. They made dark environmental predictions. Darrell Dorgan, brother to former U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan, predicted that western North Dakota would become a federal Superfund site. There was hysteria about "man camps" and crime waves. I remember former state lawmaker Ryan Taylor, during his 2012 campaign against Gov. Jack Dalrymple, told dark stori…

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Inforum broke the news in Fargo, United States on Saturday, June 20, 2026.
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