Is it time for a "North Dakota First" Energy Policy?

Republican politicians telling voters the Green New Deal is totally bad, while creating schemes for private investors to benefit from those policies, is the root problems behind the CO2 pipeline fight

Anyone who has paid attention to the politics of energy policy over the last 20 years knows that the primary slogan in that time has been the so-called “all of the above energy policy.” It is a slogan because while many people genuinely believed it, for some the real purpose was to protect the traditional fossil fuel energy sources without sounding like a rejection of alternative energy sources.

The primary driver of this policy has been the fact that Minnesota is the biggest customer of North Dakota’s surplus electricity.  As a state, Minnesota has passed laws designed to phase out its importation of electricity generated by carbon-producing means.  Utility providers have created a scheme to use North Dakota’s surplus wind to generate the “clean” power that Minnesota demands.  This policy and approach had nearly universal support until about five years ago in 2017, when cracks started to emerge in that support.

Windpower: From Favored Alternative to Enemy of Coal

In the last 20 years, N…